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“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.”

Doe Problem Political Imagination Levels Gone Imagine Seeing Racism Let Me Imagine That Arena

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.”

“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.”

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.”

Whole Problem Racism Notion Discrimination Sexism Bias Linked Hierarchy Homophobia

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”

Source: Making Sense

“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

“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem.”

May Country Problem Seems Force Race Position Periods Civilization Unique Racism

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Problem Causes Racism Decided African American Family Problems

Author:Bebe Moore Campbell

“If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.”

People Ifs Knows Want Country Problem Might Asks White Racism

Author:Tim Wise

“Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.”

Problem Poverty Racism Corruption Riches

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I

“Racism is a worldwide problem.”

Problem Racism

Author:Patterson Hood

“Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.”

Way Problem White Racism Structure Males Compare Sexism Symptoms Parallels

Author:Frida Kahlo

“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.”

“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.”

Ifs World Looks Important War Problem Poverty Issues Economic Conflict Racism Resources Economics Around The World Economic Issues

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.”

Should Whole Problem Form Danger Racism Overcoming Minorities Intolerance Persecuted Marginalized

Author:Pope Francis

“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.”

People Way Feels Trying Problem Pain Deals Environment Racism Tools Hatred Increase Denial Frustration Feel Better Scapegoat

Author:Matt Dillon

“One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."”

People Years Wells Children Said Problem Kids America Courses Huge Racism Areas Years Ago They Said Asian Funny Things Latino Central America

Author:Rafe Esquith

“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.”

Problem Culture Social Religious Education Moral Serious Drug Racism Addiction Gaps Drug Addiction Drug Addict Social Problems Moral Education

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.”

Long Problem Games Taken Football Authority Racism England Refuse Acknowledge

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.”

Needs Helping Problem Suffering Serious Racism Killing Medical Racist Psychiatric Medical Problems

Author:Ishmael Reed

“We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.”

Problem Black Gone Happened Serious Racism Males Rate African American Roof No Problem Reconstruction Incarceration Black Lives Black Males

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.”

People Believe Stills Real Problem Able Black President White Issues Imagine Like You Racism Black People No Problem Better Off Real Problems

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.”

“The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.”

People Ifs Knows World Looks Country Problem Happens Culture Issues Planets Racism Granted

Author:Stephan James

“Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.”

Doe Problem School Turns Cities Economy Environment Theory Racism Capitalism Architecture Addresses Exploitation Subjective Psychotherapy School System Architecture School

Author:James Hillman

“I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World in general. I'll like to say this - we in the United States would never believe that another form of goverment - I don't care even if it's against the racism, etc. - it is hard to get the masses of people to believe or accept that a socialist government will relieve them of most of the problems.”

“When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.”

Want Mind Problem Wanted Faces Opportunity Causes Media Racism Who I Am Interviews Bigotry Defects Face To Face

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.”

Problem Courses Growing Huge Racism Connected Inequality Xenophobia

Author:Adam Hochschild

“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.”

Men Looks Stills Reason Problem Seems Might America Born Focus Youth Periods Racism Good Things Look Up Old Man Nuts Vietnam Fondness Heyday

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.”

People Thinking Children Facts Problem Trump Calling Racism Racist Posters

Author:Van Jones

“There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].”

Problem Racism No Problem Mecca

Author:Malcolm X

“I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.”

Thinking Want Giving Problem Opportunity White Reader Racism Barriers Sentiments Imaginary

Author:Vivek Shraya

“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.”

Giving Persons Problem Reality Eye Names Streets Exercise Racism Responsible Can Not Crow Being Responsible Jim Crow

Author:Raoul Peck

“Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.”

Problem Fighting Racism

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.”

Knows Problem Culture Courses Black White Racism Overcoming Latin Sexism Pot Asian Melting Homophobia Isms Other Cultures Elitism Black White Melting Pot Ageism

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.”

Problem Serious Racism Discussion

Author:Ilyasah Shabazz

“Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.”

Way Littles Stills Ideas Problem America Bits Identity Little Bit Racism Scales Vulnerable Our Relationship Suspicion Entitled Hook Incentives Small Things Evaluate Racism In America

Author:Shelby Steele

“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.”

Giving Different Feelings Problem Speak Behavior Racism Skins Tension Sentiments Outsiders

Author:Norbert Elias

“I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.”

Problem Black Football Racism

Author:Francesco Totti

“There is a certain amount of racist behaviour, a certain amount of this mindset, in the darker recesses of every community. It needs to be called what it is, which is vile and hateful. It's starting a national conversation, which is probably long overdue. Because we do, as a country, have an awkward problem with a certain amount of racism in the hearts of I believe a small number of people, but I still believe we have to chase it out.”

People Believe Heart Long Country Problem I Believe Community Racism Mindset Racist Awkward Hateful I Still Believe

Author:Don Iveson

“Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.”

Problem Political Racism Activist Thinker Political Correctness

Author:David Weigel

“In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on - and are unsure of how individuals can affect real change. We don't know what effect we will have on the current political climate as we strive to effect change. All large historical decision draw from a sea of smaller decisions. One never knows what will make the difference in the long run.”

Long Real Moments Feelings Problem Running Political Individual Decision Racism Historical Strive Fascism Misogyny Inadequate Homophobia Unsure

Author:Sabina Murray

“Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.”

Problem Racism Okay Discrimination Relax

Author:Glenn Loury

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

Problem Lines Century Color Racism Social Justice Twentieth Century Racism In America Black Racism Race And Color

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.”

Problem Culture Black Justice Feminism Diversity Racism Social Justice Response Rational Nationalism Sexism Black Nationalism

Author:Pearl Cleage

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.”

“If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.”

Ifs Firsts Facts Problem Political Chance Cry Racism Mouths Chances Are Political Correctness Correctness

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.”

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