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“One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.”

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Author:Gene Luen Yang

“When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.”

People Humans Political Turns Causes Results Violence Racism Hatred Absolutes Supreme Tendencies Privileged Human Society Counterfeit Good Political Privileged Life

Book:Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.”

Doe Problem School Turns Cities Economy Environment Theory Racism Capitalism Architecture Addresses Exploitation Subjective Psychotherapy School System Architecture School

Author:James Hillman

“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

“When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.”

People Looks Kind Country Suffering Turns Passion Economy Racism Fortune Not Sure Immigrants Inward Sensibility Solidarity Outrage Xenophobia

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")”

Source: The Hidden Wound

“Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.”

Long Past Turns Individual Community Memories Cutting Duty Racism Unjust

Author:William Deane

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.”

Made Important Lasts Turns Rights Generations Century Movement Victory Racism Embrace Civil Rights Racist Civil Rights Movement Civil Right Movement

Author:Carol Moseley Braun