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“Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.”

People World Seems Nations Community Conditions Racism Crisis African American Poorest Harlem Bangladesh

Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“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

“It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.”

People States Hands Seems Action Choices White United Numbers United States Groups Racism Advantage Democratic Males Available Myth Props White Privilege Small Numbers Meritocracy

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”

Trying Seems Opportunity Position Equal Racism Dominance Equal Opportunity White Privilege

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.”

Feels Hard Seems Bears Racism Hatred Prejudice Forgiving Oppression Injury Oppressors Hard To Forgive

Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke

“Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.”

Seems Environment Racism Incredibles I Realized Racist Considering Outrage

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.”

Has Beens Stories Seems Eye Generations Racism Angry Injustice Continuing

Book:Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

“I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.”

Want Enough Seems Position Amount Racism My Friends Extremes Fortunate Ambassadors Anti Racism

Author:Lilly Singh

“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.”

“Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].”

People Feels Persons War Done Seems Hate Crime Racism Treats Asian Worldview Hate Crime Aversion Unfairness

Author:Tao Lin

“It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.”

World Heart Seems Care Used Poor Seeing Position Grew Grew Up Racism South Don't Care Underdog

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."”

Seems Humanity Turns Racism Advantage Philosopher Corporate Exploits Achilles Globalism

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.”

“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

“Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.”

Country Seems Racism Built Function Institutions Racist Black Power

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“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.”

People Made Seems Clear Progress Teaching Racism Balls Enormous Racist Overwhelming Condemnation Insisting

Author:Jon Stewart

“It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.”

Should Seems Purpose Views Groups Century Racism Advantage Labor Organization Aim Point Of View Unfortunate Unnecessary Disadvantages Disorganized

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“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.”

“I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.”

Has Beens Important Seems Grows Numbers Racism Victim Racist Recalls Tanks Dizzy

Author:Albert Speer

“Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.”

Thinking Should Seems Violence Land Racism Hatred Corruption Welcome Relief Bullshit Nudity

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.”

Should Stills Seems Poverty Republican Racism Should Have Prejudice Arguing Discrimination Spokes Mentality Ireland Confined Repression

Author:Bernadette Devlin

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