“I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.” ThinkingKnowsSelfRaceBrainInformationExampleColorDegreesRacismSkinsIncreaseStructureBonesRacistAssociatesSkin Color Author:Tao Lin
“The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCharacterStoriesUsedNightLiteratureRacismNegativeWestAppealsRacistDisguiseStereotypeMagicianNurseryChildren's LiteratureArabianParenthesesArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.” ThinkingWantNeedsBelieveLooksSituationRacismDon't BelieveCurrentsSexismBurnedMessiahLatentCurrent Situation Author:Sara Paretsky
“I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.” ThinkingNeedsSometimesRacismAccountsSexismXenophobiaCripples Author:Anna Quindlen
“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayFacesTaughtRacismGrandmotherRacistMy GrandmotherNeuroticTaught UsMichiganPsychotic Author:James Earl Jones
“If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.” IfsThinkingChildrenBornBeatsRacismRaisedGenesResentmentAnger And Resentment Author:John Assaraf
“I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation.” ThinkingTryingKindLongCountryAmericaNationsStruggleLong TimeRacismDiscriminationBigotryDisappointedI Am Disappointed Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign of Donald Trump, calls for, I think, a very vigorous and aggressive response to what he's saying.” ThinkingWayBeliefTrumpRacismResponseCampaignsAggressiveVigorousXenophobia Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's not racism to question some of the political correctness today that's going on, to recognize that things are going as well as - for American workers, as they'd like, because people, their frustration is arising from a deep sense of unease that Washington is fiddling while their house is burning.” PeopleThinkingWellsTodayPoliticalHouseRacismWorkersBurningBordersFrustrationPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessAmerican Workers Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.” PeopleThinkingImportantSpeakChallengesJusticeWhiteRacismSickRemainsEndureLegacyOur TimeRacial Justice Author:Sally Kohn
“Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...” PeopleIfsThinkingRacismHomophobia Author:Nate Parker
“When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.” PeopleThinkingWorldHeartDifferentDarknessRacismStandingImportanceConvincedDifferent WorldsEruditionHeart Of Darkness Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.” ThinkingLittlesTwoImportantCountryBigsMovingValuesHouseParentChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodRacismImportant ThingsMy FavoriteSmellCoffeeOur CountryErasKitchenHallsTexasBedroomChildhood MemoriesFortsUnitarianFavorite MemoriesUnitarian ChurchFort Worth Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.” ThinkingYearsLittlesHelpingChristianHoursHalfComedyCoupleThousandRacismEthicsNotionSillyThousand YearsEraseHalf HoursHanging AroundChristian Ethics Author:Norman Lear
“The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.” ThinkingMatterUnderstandingBlackWhiteMovementConversationRacismInequalityBlack Lives MatterEntitlementBlack Lives Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.” ThinkingAbleOne DayRacismPrimariesSuspectsJailParanoidAnti Racism Author:Jim Goad
“If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.” IfsThinkingWantYearsTwoCountryMightEarthLastsEvilChurchViolenceStudentsKingsSpeechRacismConnectionsRadicalTwo YearsMaterialismVietnamViewersSermonsLutherAprilMilitarismKings SpeechTripletRiverside Author:Bill Ayers
“I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.” PeopleThinkingChildrenFactsProblemTrumpCallingRacismRacistPosters Author:Van Jones
“I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.” ThinkingYearsEndsAmericaCultureIndividualBlackVisionPerspectiveRacismBroadsUrbanOutrageYears Of LifeMilitancyDubois Author:Manning Marable
“I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.” ThinkingWantGivingProblemOpportunityWhiteReaderRacismBarriersSentimentsImaginary Author:Vivek Shraya
“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.” ThinkingKnowsWarEnoughGovernmentNumbersDemocracyClearFocusRightsSecurityBuildingCostRacismAgreeFinancialDrawingAdministrationNot SureDisagreeApprovalIsraeliTalibanDeclaringInsistingProtocolConstitutional RightsDeclaring War Author:Judith Butler
“I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingReasonCausesCommonIssuesCuttingRacismBasesDiscriminationReason WhyDividesReach Out Author:Keith Ellison
“I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.” ThinkingKindDealsResponsibilityFiguresRacismInstinctObsolete Author:Jordan Peele
“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenStatesHumanityFightingPositionProjectsRacismRedStandingDignityBlueSpeciesUpliftingSexismHomophobiaUnderdogAnti RacismCenterpieces Author:Van Jones
“I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.” PeopleThinkingLooksTwoActionBlackSupportIssuesRacismIraqBlack PeopleLinkedChauvinism Author:Michael Yates
“I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".” PeopleThinkingYoungRacismExpectationsUnrealistic Expectations Author:Barack Obama
“If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.” IfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensRealCountryStatesLossUnitedUnited StatesToo MuchHonestFiguresDangerTrumpLuckyRacismClownCrookedThugCharismaticHug You Author:Noam Chomsky
“First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingDifferentJusticeRacismPoliceSocial JusticeSexismHomophobia Author:Karin Slaughter
“Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.” PeopleThinkingImportantCultureRacism Author:Don Iveson
“I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.” ThinkingBrainRacismRacist Author:Tao Lin
“Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor people, minorities and so forth, and he wants to get even, he wants to get even with all those people that have engaged in this theft, discrimination, racism and be and so forth, he also wants to create a permanent underclass for the express purpose of making sure he's never out of office or the regime's party is never out of office.” PeopleThinkingCountryPurposePoorPartyCrimeWalkingOfficeRacismDiscriminationBarackPoor People Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African American candidate - yes! And here's a woman candidate - yes! Why can't I get behind either one of them? Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.” ThinkingBelieveHeartWishSituationMy HeartRacismAfrican AmericanSexism Author:Sara Paretsky
“Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.” ThinkingWayWantHumansPersonsOur LivesRacismRootsFundamentalsErrorsSelfishnessAbortionJustifyStemSymptomsPoisonousHuman Error Author:Alveda King
“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
“Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.” PeopleThinkingCultureChallengesAbilityAttitudeAudienceJudgingDrugMusic IsRacismIncrediblesYou ChooseVehicleIconicCharismaticPopular Music Author:Nick Broomfield
“I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism is just wrong. And this is where having an honest conversation with white men about their issues and their concerns, and having honest conversations about the experiences that African-Americans are still having, despite who's the president of the United States, in the criminal justice system that we see in sentencing, we see in policing and a lot of these issues.” ThinkingMenCountryPresidentJusticeHonestRacismConcernSexismJustice SystemCriminal Justice Author:Cory Booker
“I would say that, you know, being Jewish, what has been most significant in my life is understanding what a Hitler - what horrible politics can mean to people and I think that's been one of the motivating factors in my life in fighting against racism and bigotry of all kinds because when it gets out of hand, as we have seen and we are, you know - it's obviously has unbelievable repercussions.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanFightingUnderstandingRacismSignificantHorribleAll KindsBigotryUnbelievable Author:Bernie Sanders
“I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.” PeopleThinkingMomRacismMy MomLook UpTake TimeOld People Author:Vince Staples
“If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.” ThinkingMeanLongActionDifficultGoalEconomicPolicyRacismProgramLaborUltimateStressDiscouragingAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:William Julius Wilson
“It's bizarre: I've tried to understand why people are into Trump. I really don't think I can. I don't think it's as simple as just racism. I do think there's a fear that white people have, even if they don't have a vicious desire to do harm to black people, they fear losing their top spot.” PeopleThinkingDesireBlackSimpleLosingRacismBlack PeopleBizarre Author:Mary Gaitskill
“The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.” PeopleThinkingImportantMomentsPoliticalOpinionTerribleRacismGreat ThingsLgbtReally Amazing Author:Charli XCX
“Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.” ThinkingLongDifferentNightProgressRacismMentalityTake TimeOppressedHomophobiaCab Author:Maya Jane Coles
“Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we created something endured. And whatever you might think of commercial hip hop now, there's a lot there to like and there's a lot there to critique and there's a lot of things you could say both about. But we created something that endured when we ourselves were not supposed to endure. When we ourselves were not supposed to survive and thrive. So I think that is worthy of respect and preservation and it's US history.” ThinkingPovertyViolenceRacismAbusePoliceEndureHip HopWorthyAidsThriveGangPolice BrutalityCritiqueSubstance Abuse Author:Sofia Quintero
“I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the backbone of the economy. These workers didn't reap the benefit of that system.” ThinkingBlackEconomyRacismLaborReapBackbone Author:Bryant Terry
“I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.” ThinkingKidsAmericaFacesFoundRacismSouthYour FaceSouth AfricaThrustRacism In America Author:Dave Matthews
“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
“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.” ThinkingMenYearsRealSleepSituationKnowingDadRacismYears AgoTownsSouthUniversityMy DadLabourServingLionsSouth AfricaNot KnowingReal MenCouncillors Author:Johnny Vegas
“I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.” ThinkingMadeWarPovertyProgressRacism Author:Andrew Young
“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.” ThinkingWantLongDoeEndsRecordsLong TimeRacismManagementTrackTrack Record Author:Thomas Sowell
“All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.” ThinkingPerfectRacismSurfaceAnalogiesFutilityPenguinsBelow The Surface Book:My Booky Wook Source: My Booky Wook