Best racism & progress Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.”

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

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

“The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there to remind us of how far weve come, and every day our journey is to continue with that progress of becoming more wise, more compassionate and more considerate human beings. Remembering Emmett though song is way to remind people that there is no need to continue with senseless crimes. Race and racism do no go hand in hand. We are only one race: human.”

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Author:Melody Gardot

“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.”

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Author:Andrew Young

“Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.”

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Author:Maya Jane Coles

“I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.”

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Author:Andrew Young

“There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.”

“The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball... is in teaching people what racism actually is ... which allows people to say incredibly racist things while insisting they would never.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.”

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas—like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male “honor” that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls—you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and consequences of its doctrine. And, again, I have always emphasized that its primary victims are innocent Muslims—especially women and girls.”

“The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Either we are alive and human or we are dead and tribal.”

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Book:Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There are forces that have always attempted, and ultimately failed, to make America static and rigid. But America has proven to be elastic. Our ancestors have always had to push and stretch America to accommodate its many residents and communities. We now have to do our part. If any of you have been active students of US history, you know that with every two steps we march forward toward progress, we always get pushed one step back. The racially anxious men and women with hoods, tiki torches, and business suits will do everything in their power to violently chokehold and drag America back to 1953. This is the year before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. I'm convinced that 1953 is also the year that many enemies of diversity and progress believe America was allegedly "great.”

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Book:Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“But before we can treat, we must believe. Believe all is not lost for you and me and our society. Believe in the possibility that we can strive to be antiracist from this day forward. Believe in the possibility that we can transform our societies to be antiracist from this day forward. Racist power is not godly. Racist policies are not indestructible. Racial inequities are not inevitable. Racist ideas are not natural to the human mind.”

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Book:How to Be an Antiracist

Source: How to Be an Antiracist

“We have come to conquer hearts, not lands - we have come to erase misery, not identity - we have come to instill equality, not slavery.”

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Book:The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“No togetherness, no tomorrow.”

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Book:Servitude is Sanctitude

Source: Servitude is Sanctitude

“Our world has been run by the generation bigotry for way too long, now it's time for the generation assimilation to take charge.”

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Book:Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Without revolution, civilization comes to halt, because with complacency arrives indifference, and with indifference comes the fall of civilization.”

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Book:Revolution Indomable

Source: Revolution Indomable

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