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“It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.”

Ifs Age Realizing Racism Died Fifty Fractions

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.”

Way Want Children Realizing White Boys Racism My Way Scream Justification White Supremacy Spoiled Supremacy Spoiled Children

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

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

“It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.”

“Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.”

Knows Reading Realizing Cases Fantasy Reader Racism Scary Sexism

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad.”

“I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.”

Enough Black Realizing Months Six Racism Down And Good Enough Six Months Scholarship Institute Philadelphia

Author:Nina Simone

“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.”

Inspirational Persons Motivational Wish Black Realizing Basketball Racism Black Racism

Author:Michael Jordan

“I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.”

Believe Wish Realizing Racism

Author:will.i.am

“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”

“Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.”

“We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.”

Needs Sometimes Play Realizing Roles Racism Overcoming Discrimination

Author:Samuel Ruiz

“As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.”

Knows World Way Different War Realizing Situation Poverty Changed Racism Different Ways Our World Seriousness Demonstration

Author:Dorothy Day