Best racism & victim Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.”

People Knows World Said Real Evil Brother Racism Victim Injustice Villain

Author:Khalid Abdul Muhammad

“Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.”

Certain Black Citizens Racism Victim Folks Tape Erase

Author:Dorothy Cotton

“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.”

“I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.”

People Knows Firsts Mean War Country Political Fighting Lines Racism Victim Fabric Tribes Torn Wellbeing

Author:Pearl Tan

“One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.”

World Desire Culture Views Products Terrible Racism Capitalism Victim West Western Greed Circles Disagree Savages Dominant Brutality Western Culture

Author:Andre Vltchek

“The way racism works in Canada, it's very subtle. You may feel you're a victim of racism or have experienced racism, but you can't necessarily prove it - unless you get a [white] friend to go check out that rental, go check out that job, whatever. Unless you're willing to really dig to prove you're a victim of racism, it might be difficult to do that. And so what you're dealing with then is feeling, it's emotion.”

Way Feels May Feelings Might Jobs Difficult White Emotion Willing Prove Racism Victim Checks Canada Subtle Prove It

Author:George Elliott Clarke

“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”

Humans Faces Lying Horror Racism Conscience Victim Injustice Commit Prisoner Oppressors Facing The Truth Sears Human Equality

Author:Alveda King

“Each one of us must ask how we contribute to the racist climate that seems only to grow stronger in spite of our best efforts at legislative and social remedies. Whether we are victims of racism or its perpetrators, we must begin on our knees.”

Effort Racism Stronger Victim Spite Racist

Author:Wilton Daniel Gregory

“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”

Men Teach Violence Racism Victim Constant Criminals Nonviolence Brutal Gun Control Racism In America Non Violence

Author:Malcolm X

“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.”

People Home America Black Community Lines White Battle Prove Racism Victim Sincere

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”

People Want Past Racism Victim Human Rights Myth Tolerance Ruins Intolerance Philanthropy Refugee Jungle Indigenous Zoos Indigenous People

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.”

Ifs Known Racism Victim Racist Als

Author:Ann Coulter

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

People Want Should Ends Government Today America Past Century Racism Victim Myth Ruins Ashamed Latin Indigenous Twentieth Century Latin America Zoos

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.”

“Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.”

Knows Persons Blood Position Racism Pressure Victim Racist Strokes Symptoms Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure

Author:Coleman Young

“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

“Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.”

Should Kind Color Racism Function Victim Laundry Seesaw

Author:Albert Memmi

“Important men become martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant - that they were not even men - and the world continues on.”

Men Art Death Racism Victim Mourning Martyr

Book:消失的另一半

Source: 消失的另一半

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