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“To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.”

Lines Racism Equality Divides Creeds Sections Castes

Book:The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

“I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.”

Thinking Lines Deals Class Issues Racism Bottom Vices Solve Aids Sexism Bottom Line Vice Versa Epidemics Homophobia Aids Epidemic

Author:Ann Northrop

“It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.”

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Author:Dave Matthews

“When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.”

People Knows Firsts Mean War Country Political Fighting Lines Racism Victim Fabric Tribes Torn Wellbeing

Author:Pearl Tan

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

Has Beens Poetry Literature Black Lines Our Lives Color Racism Censorship

Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.”

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Author:Nannie Helen Burroughs

“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.”

People Home America Black Community Lines White Battle Prove Racism Victim Sincere

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois