“[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.” PartyHalfCenturyRacismDemocraticIncrediblesDemocratic PartyInstitutional Racism Author:Sean Hannity
“White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.” KnowsTryingStillsHatePassionWhiteRaceHalfSilenceQualityCrimeGrewSpeechGrew UpRacismClaimsPrimariesThemeTopicsHate CrimePresumptionWhitenessOthernessHate Speech Author:Adrienne Rich
“I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.” FirstsHalfPeriodsRacismInequalityRisingThis Society Author:William Julius Wilson
“I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.” PeopleKindDifferentRunningFoundBlackHalfTenRacismMovedOppressionBlack PeopleFloridaMiami Author:Sidney Poitier
“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.” ThinkingYearsLittlesHelpingChristianHoursHalfComedyCoupleThousandRacismEthicsNotionSillyThousand YearsEraseHalf HoursHanging AroundChristian Ethics Author:Norman Lear
“Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of all Americans are either in or near poverty. Poverty is certainly worse for African-Americans now than it was during King's lifetime.” FirstsStillsBlackPresidentHalfPovertyIssuesKingsRacismLifetimeAfrican AmericanErasUsa Author:Tavis Smiley
“Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.” MenNeedsMindKindHelpingIndividualFeltUnderstandingDarkHalfCreativeRacismPrejudiceDepthMythObjectivesAnalysisHeightRealmsTensionBrotherhoodBondageMajesticHalf TruthAppraisalGadfliesCreative Tension Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.” CountryWhiteHalfAchieveBehaviorRacismIndependenceTablesSettlersAntipathySmelly Book:Home and exile and other selections Source: Home and exile and other selections