“We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.” WorldHas BeensMadeSometimesLightRunningEvilWhiteDarknessThis WorldRacismDenyDespiteSymbolsInferiorsWhitenessWhite Privilege Book:Reena and Other Stories Source: Reena and Other Stories
“For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.” PeopleStillsRunningTodayBlackPresidentPovertyGreaterEconomicRacismPrisonInjusticeAdministrationProportionBlack PeopleDesperationRiceGhettoHigh PlacesInstitutional RacismEconomic Injustice Author:Howard Zinn
“The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.” KnowsMenWaySoulRunningCompanyPovertyIgnoranceRacismFellowsTablesPrisonStupidityStealingBreadThievesParliamentAnother ManWidowsOrphanBakersPromotersWidows And Orphans Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.” PeopleKindDifferentRunningFoundBlackHalfTenRacismMovedOppressionBlack PeopleFloridaMiami Author:Sidney Poitier
“Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?” FirstsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentEconomyViolenceRacismDemocratAfrican AmericanUnemploymentAmerican President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump. Take your pick. They are hated; they are not opposed, and I wish an even bigger percentage of the American people would figure this out. The American people are running around thinking that all the hate and the racism and all these other isms are located on the Republican Party side.” PeopleThinkingRunningHateWishPartyRepublicanRacismHatedRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” LongRealMomentsFeelingsProblemRunningPoliticalIndividualDecisionRacismHistoricalStriveFascismMisogynyInadequateHomophobiaUnsure Author:Sabina Murray
“I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class and race and healthcare and education and housing and racism impact everyday lives. For example, my mother wouldn't let me go to my homecoming dance because the yacht club where they were having the dance threw a fundraiser for David Duke, an ex-Klan member, when he was running for governor of Louisiana. So I grew up seeing how personal politics could be.” WritingRunningMotherGrowing UpRacismLet MeEverydayHealthcareEveryday LifeHomecomingYachtLet Me GoFundraiser Author:Jesmyn Ward
“It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.” WayRealSelfUseLightRunningEasyVoiceMistakeWatchesRacismEmbraceShiningFearlessSexismFierceDiminishRapidsPromotionBrighterHomophobiaComplementSelf PromotionReal Courage Author:Gabrielle Union
“There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.” WayKindRunningWhiteBrainEnemyRacismRacistDnaTissuesSynapses Author:Jeremiah Wright
“The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise” PeopleRunningBlackColorBecomingRacismBlack PeopleHostileBecoming MoreXenophobia Author:Assata Shakur
“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.” KnowsMenLifeNeedsKindEndsSeemsRunningAgeEarthFormCoursesSocialProcessExistenceSocietyBecomingRacismMen And WomenOrganizationTransformationFoundationStructurePatriarchyThreateningConstructsHistoricHierarchyUnprecedentedMilitarismPatriarchal SocietyAnti RacistSocial OrganizationSystemic ChangeLinkagesExistence Of Life Author:Gerda Lerner
“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.” IfsHas BeensMadeStillsCountryRunningPastYoungBlackWhiteInspiringPoorMistakeRichProgressLandMembersOfficeHighestRacismProfoundBoundsMade ItTragicOur SocietySpokesSermonsAsianLatinoStaticRich And PoorCoalitionsYoung And OldReverends Book:Change We Can Believe In Source: Change We Can Believe In