“It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.” ImportantActionExistenceRacismAdvantageDiscriminationAcknowledgeAffirmative ActionAffirmative Book:Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.” StillsTwoImportantMatterPhilosophyWholeFactsPoliticalWhiteLeaderMovementRacismBlindSouthWaveSpotsClassicProgressiveSouthernAssociationTypicalWhite SupremacyPolitical PhilosophyIdenticalSupremacyReformersBlind SpotsProgressive Movement Author:C. Vann Woodward
“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.” PeopleNeedsYearsBelieveStillsImportantEndsTodayRaceViolenceAwarenessRacismAspectSlaveryImportant ThingsTreatedEducatedSegregation Author:Assata Shakur
“Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.” IfsWorldLooksImportantWarProblemPovertyIssuesEconomicConflictRacismResourcesEconomicsAround The WorldEconomic Issues Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.” ThinkingTryingImportantArtistVoiceCommunityViolenceRacismPaintHip HopRapHipsTelling The TruthHopsMisogynyHomophobiaOverlooked Author:Russell Simmons
“It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.” WorldWayImportantIdeasReasonCharacterFeelingsActionSocialTermJusticeMoralIssuesProjectsRacismAgreeIntentionRelateInnocencePenaltiesSocial IssuesDeath PenaltyAmbiguityFertileMoral Ambiguity Author:Richard LaGravenese
“I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.” PeopleThinkingImportantSpeakChallengesJusticeWhiteRacismSickRemainsEndureLegacyOur TimeRacial Justice Author:Sally Kohn
“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.” ThinkingLittlesTwoImportantCountryBigsMovingValuesHouseParentChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodRacismImportant ThingsMy FavoriteSmellCoffeeOur CountryErasKitchenHallsTexasBedroomChildhood MemoriesFortsUnitarianFavorite MemoriesUnitarian ChurchFort Worth Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.” PeopleThinkingImportantCultureRacism Author:Don Iveson
“There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with the remnants of slavery. We're still dealing with racism on a daily basis. For me, I choose to write books about black people where we are normal. I was raised to believe that I deserve to be in a room just like anybody else. I try to write books like that.” PeopleWritingTryingBelieveImportantBookBlackRacismDeserveSlaveryBlack People Author:Kwame Alexander
“I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best. Maybe this was all meant to be and maybe Big Brother worked as a catalyst in a bigger issue like racism, which was important to be broached. Maybe it had to happen this way and I'm glad that I could help it.” BelieveChildrenImportantReasonHelpingI BelieveDestinyBrotherRacismBelieverGladThings HappenMeant To Be Author:Shilpa Shetty
“Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.” ImportantHateCommonShareIdentityRacismBigotryHomophobiaMisinformation Author:Aasif Mandvi
“The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.” PeopleThinkingImportantMomentsPoliticalOpinionTerribleRacismGreat ThingsLgbtReally Amazing Author:Charli XCX
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” PeoplePersonsImportantInspiringRightsComputerRacismMachinesPropertyProfitMotiveGiantsMaterialismIncapableProperty RightsMilitarismBreaking SilenceProfit MotiveTriplet Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.” NeedsDoeHas BeensImportantActionPoliticalIndividualWhiteFocusRacismCommitmentStressPrejudiceTransformationThreatResponseSignificantPsychologicalAcknowledgeRacistEstablishmentWorkshopsCorrespondingAcknowledgmentCathartic Author:Bell Hooks
“It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.” IfsImportantMightOrderSoundDecisionRacismFantasticSatRestaurantsChickensBusNaiveBurgersImportant Decisions Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.” KnowsImportantStatesDoneActionUnitedUnited StatesModernSubjectsEffectsRacismToolsTechniqueDiscriminationOppositionAffirmative ActionAffirmativeProvokedAnti Discrimination Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton
“The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.” PeopleThinkingImportantReasonBlackWhiteRacism Author:James A. Baldwin
“I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.” Has BeensImportantSeemsGrowsNumbersRacismVictimRacistRecallsTanksDizzy Author:Albert Speer
“The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.” MadeImportantLastsTurnsRightsGenerationsCenturyMovementVictoryRacismEmbraceCivil RightsRacistCivil Rights MovementCivil Right Movement Author:Carol Moseley Braun