“Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.” MenSaidWhiteImagineRacismRacistWhite ManJudicialLatinaLatina Women Author:Newt Gingrich
“Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidRealEvilBrotherRacismVictimInjusticeVillain Author:Khalid Abdul Muhammad
“[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?” GivingSaidSonRacismGive MeTrainMy SisterTicketsConductorPatronizingAuntie Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
“I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.” KnowsPersonsSaidEndsHateHoursWhiteRacismI HateRacist Author:Toi Derricotte
“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.” IfsMenYearsHas BeensSaidTwoEyeLastsFightingPoorPovertyGraceBloodTearsRacismHundredYears AgoSlaverySouthIllIgnorantConquerFiftyEarningBlindnessSighMachineryParadesCottonReproachWrongedWarpAmerican Slavery Author:Frances Harper
“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.” WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks Author:Condoleezza Rice
“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."” PeopleYearsWellsChildrenSaidProblemKidsAmericaCoursesHugeRacismAreasYears AgoThey SaidAsianFunny ThingsLatinoCentral America Author:Rafe Esquith
“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.” IfsKnowsMenTryingKindSaidEndsYoungFightingFatherLeftEmotionalGrewDadGrew UpRacismTownsMy DadYoung ManNaziSmall TownPolandAnti SemitismHorrificTraumatic Experiences Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.” IfsThinkingWantSaidPlayMightRacePolicyDrugRacismTrialsFactorsThey SaidProsecutionDrug PolicyZimmerman Author:Carl Hart
“As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.” WritingFirstsSaidTodayKnownClassStruggleIssuesBirthPagesRacismMouthsArgumentThreatFeministToleranceBetrayWarfareBeatenAccusedStandpointClass StrugglePoignantClass WarfareAnti RacismBeing Accused Author:Alice Schwarzer
“I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That was a principled, lawful understanding of the role of government, the Constitution. It was not based on racism, on demagoguery, but on strong principles that - which, consistent with the American heritage and our strength for the future.” MindSaidGovernmentStrongUnderstandingPrinciplesRolesRacismConstitutionConsistentHeritagePrincipledDemagogueryRole Of Government Author:Jeff Sessions
“I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .” KnowsMenSaidRealCountryLightRememberCultureWhitePartyCoupleRacismJokesMy FamilyLet MeYeahBrokeLaughedAcceptableWhite ManLoadedBroke Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.” KnowsWritingSaidIdeasHappenedRacismBullyingPuberty Author:Judy Blume
“But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.” PersonsSaidStillsHandsBlackWhiteRacismBoredRacistBlack Person Author:Audre Lorde
“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.” ThinkingSaidCourageAliveKingsRacismOur SocietyRacistMarchLutherInstitutional Racism Author:Rand Paul
“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.” PeopleThinkingShouldSaidJesusDemocracyTeachingFineGayMarriedRacismDiscriminationMultipleHomosexualityCeremonyGay MarriageBeing MarriedGay People Author:Jimmy Carter
“Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.” Has BeensMadeSaidWarHumanityFailingGenerationsKingsProveRacismIdealsStriveBoundsHuman RightsHumanismSelfishSelfishnessIndifferencePrizeCynicismMidnightLutherFuture GenerationNobelNobel Peace Prize Author:Nelson Mandela
“I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.” MadeSaidRacismImpactImpressionVulnerableRacist Author:Robert Guillaume
“It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.” PeopleSaidGayRacismObsessedRacistHomosexualBotheredLatent Author:Ann Coulter
“I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.” WorldSaidDifferentWishTravelRacismAround The WorldPatriarchyXenophobia Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina