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“The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.”

Men Giving Today White Willing Giving Up Racism West Endure East Barriers Superiority White Man Inferiority East And West

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.”

Groups Racism Dogma Superiority Destined Inferiority Ethnic Groups

Book:Race: Science and Politics

Source: Race: Science and Politics

“We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.”

Needs Ideas Crime Son Racism Daughter Raises Burden Superiors Sexism Superiority Masculine Our Daughter

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.”

Different Certain Race Racism Evidence Superiority Inferiority

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.”

Given Race Racism Roots Psychological Racist Superiority Irrelevant Inferiority

Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.”

People Thinking Stills Country White Racism Happenings Myth Globes Superiority Conditioning

Author:Jane Elliott

“The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.”

Facts Community Religious Century Lessons Racism Hatred International Painful Tragic Regimes Trusted Superiority 20th Century International Community Religious Hatred

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.”

Belief Race Racism Inherent Superiority

Author:Neal Boortz

“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'”

People Race Support Alive Politician Racism Racist Superiority

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.”

People Has Beens Ends Home White Generations Racism Guilt Servant Odds Superiority Delighted Smuggling Odds And Ends

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.”

Life Fear Racism Bigotry Superiority Beliefs African Americans Race Relations Inferiority White People

Book:The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.”

Acceptance Racism Superiority African Americans Race Relations Inferiority White People

Book:The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time