“It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.” PeopleIfsMindLooksCountryHardAmericaLawSidesLinesRaceTalkingPovertyAliveBattleRacismMajorityPrisonAcknowledgeOur SocietyDivides Author:Dave Matthews
“Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.” HumansFormHuman BeingsTalkingSpeechRacismInsanityRacist Author:Paul Mooney
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.” PeopleFactsFacesFightingBlackWaterWhitePoorTalkingClassFireMassRacismCapitalismSocialismBrownYellowSolidarityLower Class Author:Fred Hampton
“How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!” TalkingRacismBlack History MonthBlack Racism Author:Morgan Freeman
“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.” ThinkingLittlesMadeWarTalkingPovertyEconomyProgressKingsRacismComplexesEnormousLuther Author:Andrew Young
“When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.” TryingLooksHardUseIndividualForceJusticeTalkingCitizensRacismPolicePatternsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanDepartmentReportsOfficersSpillsAmerican CitizensRationalizeUse Of ForceFergusonPolice Department Author:Benjamin Crump
“There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.” PeopleKnowsEndsTogetherMovingCultureThreeSocialBlackChurchWhiteTalkingGroupsDependsWorshipRacismSlaveryDiscriminationBlack And WhiteThree ThingsSocial NetworkDenominationsMoving OutDiscrimination And Racism Author:Michael Emerson
“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.” KnowsLooksLongTwoSometimesFactsHappensKidsTalkingBoysGoneFeminismWorstKingsRacismMy FriendsGood ThingsDiscussionBad ThingsShockedDarkest Times Author:Michael Buble
“Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.” NationsEmotionTalkingLibertyRacismDebateImmigrationImmigrantsStatuesStatue Of Liberty Author:Alan K. Simpson
“As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.” WayCountryStatesCultureJusticeRaceTalkingLeaderIssuesDiversityRacismSocial JusticeDenialRemedy Author:Lani Guinier
“Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth” YearsMadeBookRaceTalkingMediaYouthRacismYears AgoFocusedCommentJordan Author:Roland Lazenby
“We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?” TalkingGoes OnRacismTreatedAfrican AmericanAgendasPhilanthropy Author:Judith Jamison
“If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.” PeopleIfsWould BeRoomsTalkingNormalRacismFinishedBunchRacistDisturbed Author:Edward Furlong
“We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.” PersonsGovernmentUsedBlackWhiteTalkingRichPoliticianRacismInjusticeAverageCorporateRacistExploitationNot TalkingLackeys Author:Bobby Seale