“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.” MenYearsWarSelfStatesIndividualFourMovementPrideRacismActivismSelf ConfidenceAdministrationMaterialismVietnamFour YearsMarijuanaEcologyStereotypeRobotsHippieVietnam WarLiberatedCarterFourteen Author:Timothy Leary
“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
“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.” StatesMovingFormForceUnitedDealsBehindsUnited StatesMovementRacismEvidencePrejudiceRacial PrejudiceResurgence Author:Shirley Chisholm
“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
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.” StatesFeelingsUnitedRaceLeaderUnited StatesEconomicCenturyMovementRacismUnderstoodPrejudiceSlaveryGuiltCompetitionFeministDiscriminationMotiveInsecuritySexismParallelsSimilarityNineteenth CenturyFeminist MovementAnti SlaveryGuilt FeelingsEconomic Competition Author:Ashley Montagu
“Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.” MadeCareCommunityLeaderIssuesMovementParticularTypeGayRacismPoliceSilentInjusticeStatementsHealth CareCriedPastorGay MarriagePolice BrutalityBrutalityAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Otis Moss III
“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.” YearsFactsPastRightsMovementRacismCivil RightsDespiteTragicCourageousHonorablePromotingCivil Rights MovementHustleMindless Author:Thomas Sowell
“We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.” PeopleEnoughTodayPoliticalMovementRacismAngryAgendasGood EnoughHatefulNot Good EnoughXenophobiaPolitical Movements Author:Bernie Sanders
“The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.” ThinkingMatterUnderstandingBlackWhiteMovementConversationRacismInequalityBlack Lives MatterEntitlementBlack Lives Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.” ThinkingWhiteClassMiddleSubjectsMovementRacismConcernedPrivilegeFeministMiddle ClassRacistFeminist MovementClass Privilege Author:Betty Buckley
“To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsStatesProblemWould BeAbleForceSocialChallengesWhiteUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesCenturyMovementColorRacismTrainingToolsEnvironmentalFolksSolveUnconsciousBarriersMost PowerfulProgressiveActivistCollaborationWorthwhilePartnershipWhite SupremacyWorkshopsSupremacyUnstoppableEnvironmental ProblemsProgressive Movement Author:Van Jones
“The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.” PoliticalDesireCertainCausesLandMovementExpressionConflictLimitsRacismHatredPrejudiceNotionAriseSexismCensorshipGesturesTopicsControversyCivilityPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessCrusadesDebrisCauses Of Conflict Author:George H. W. Bush
“Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.” ShouldHelpingWinningPartyMovementRepublicanProveRacismEvidenceStrategyDistanceDemocratTeaOpponentsCandidatesRacistJoblessnessNovemberDiscussingTea PartyPurgingTea Party Movement Author:Mary Frances Berry
“It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.” PeopleDoeCausesWhiteStepsMovementJudgingRacismThese DaysExtrasRacistClansAnti RacismAnti RacistRacial Equality Author:Clarence Page
“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.” EndsWhiteRightsStyleMovementRevolutionRacismTragedyCivil RightsEducatedElitesSegregationGlamourCivil Rights MovementSexual RevolutionRacial Segregation Author:Maggie Gallagher
“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.” PeopleChildrenHas BeensChristianWhiteSupportMovementEmotionalGayRacismThirdsAbuseSlaveryJewExcuseMedicalScriptureViolentDiscriminationMinoritiesWitchHolocaustIntoleranceBloodyNaziWhite SupremacyEmotional AbuseSegregationSanctionsApartheidSupremacyCrusadesMilitiaInquisitionKu Klux KlanMisusedMedical Science Author:Mel White
“Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.” IfsPlayMovementFieldsRacismDenyDiscriminationSpectators Author:Sepp Blatter
“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
“Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!” PeopleMenWellsLooksOpportunityBlackPartyStupidMovementRepublicanGayElementsRacismFemaleConservativeTeaRacistImmigrantsRepublican PartyPollsTea PartyStrawsGreat OpportunityCainStupidestCovertPollingAnti GayTea Party Movement Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.” ShouldBelieveSocialJusticeFeminismMovementPositionRacismSocial JusticeSexismConsistentlyBeing A WomanClassismPosition Of Power Author:Jessica Valenti
“The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.” WorldLongDarkMovementLong TimeRacismMissionsScriptureDark Skinned Author:James Fenton
“I'm afraid for Ray. These young ones aren't afraid of anything. They know about what happened during the height of the movement, but they can't feel it. Knowing it and living it are two different things. It's history to them. They don't know what we've seen. Can you imagine what would happen if that lady got it in her head to call the police on some pretext or other? Why, they would sweep through this place, arresting all our boys and men over the age of thirteen. Remember the killing of those three boys turning out to vote? Remember Emmett Till?” FearHistoryImagineMovementRacismKnowing Vs Living Book:Wade in the Water Source: Wade in the Water