“Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsCuttingMovementRacismEdgesIdeologyInferiorsReactionariesSlopesDeclaringCutting EdgeAuschwitz Author:Ken Livingstone
“When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.” HumansHas BeensTwoSometimesTodayUnderstandingBlackHuman BeingsWhiteRoomsAwarenessColorReadyRacismEncounters Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.” FeelsHumansHateFightingHurtHuman BeingsRacismSickDisappointedWoundedBeatenSkepticalOutragedDisgustedResentfulDefying Author:Nannie Helen Burroughs
“Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.” HumansFormHuman BeingsTalkingSpeechRacismInsanityRacist Author:Paul Mooney
“Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal, and only injustice sows among them discrimination, fear, and exploitation.” MenHumansPoliticalLiteratureNationsReligiousHuman BeingsProtectEqualRacismMen And WomenPrejudiceInjusticeStupidityDiscriminationNationalismExploitationSectarianismGreat Literature Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another” KnowsHumansDesireNaturalHuman BeingsElementsRacismAnd LoveDestructiveCollectivesFragmentsLove One AnotherHuman Psyche Author:Jane Urquhart
“Indians in America are yet to be considered human beings, even though the Pope issued a papal bull in 1898 that declared us to be human beings. But to show you the institutional racism, the sports teams are still using the Indians as mascots.” HumansStillsShowsAmericaSportsHuman BeingsTeamRacismPopeBullsSports TeamInstitutional RacismMascots Author:Russell Means
“Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.” WantMindBelieveHumansSelfLyingCertainHuman BeingsRacismSpringTreatsTreatedFalsehoodSelf CenteredAnti Racism Author:Alveda King
“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” ShouldBelieveHumansI BelieveHuman BeingsColorRacismRespectI Believe InDiscriminationSegregationRacism In AmericaRehabilitationRespectabilityAnti RacismAnti DiscriminationBlack RacismDiscrimination And Racism Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsRacismFellowsSlaveryBurdenDiscriminationBeastUnfairXenophobiaBrandedBeast Of Burden Book:God Is Not A Christian Source: God Is Not A Christian
“I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.” MenFirstsHumansSelfFormLawNaturalHuman BeingsTeachRightsColorJudgingBehaviorRacismConsciousSkinsIslamDeedsRacistPreservationLaws Of NatureSelf PreservationAfros Author:Malcolm X
“Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.” HumansLongCareHuman BeingsEqualDiseaseRacismDon't CareI Don't CareColourBuddy Author:Mandawuy Yunupingu
“I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another to bring himself to accept the person who used to pull his plow, who used to be an animal, subhuman, who used to be considered as such by him-it's almost impossible for that person in his right mind to accept that person as his equal.” ThinkingMenWantMindHumansPersonsAmericaUsedBlackHuman BeingsAnimalAcceptingImpossibleEqualRacismUsed To Be Author:Malcolm X