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“Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.”

Thinking Long Social Natural Racism Lonely Artificial Social Systems Southerner

Author:Carson McCullers

“The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.”

Way Feels Humans Problem Hands Natural Race Worry Racism Vanity

Book:Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“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”

Knows Humans Desire Natural Human Beings Elements Racism And Love Destructive Collectives Fragments Love One Another Human Psyche

Author:Jane Urquhart

“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.”

Men Firsts Humans Self Form Law Natural Human Beings Teach Rights Color Judging Behavior Racism Conscious Skins Islam Deeds Racist Preservation Laws Of Nature Self Preservation Afros

Author:Malcolm X

“The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were Black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.”

Natural Racism Racist Phases Old Fashioned

Author:Michael Hutchence

“If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.”

Ifs Certain Natural Results Race Conditions Racism

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.”

“The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.”

Men Has Beens Reason Natural Equal Racism Dignity Conviction Accepted Discrimination Justified Racial Discrimination

Author:Pope John XXIII