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“Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.”

“The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.”

People Thinking Important Reason Black White Racism

“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.”

Ends White Rights Style Movement Revolution Racism Tragedy Civil Rights Educated Elites Segregation Glamour Civil Rights Movement Sexual Revolution Racial Segregation

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.”

Men Black White Cry Tears Racism Yellow Salt

Author:Claude Aveline

“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.”

“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.”

Persons White Taught Racism Advantage Aspect Privilege I Realized Disadvantages White Privilege

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.”

People Knows Firsts Done Facts White Gone Cutting Color Sweet Racism Folks Brown Sugar Fooled Cotton Hog

Book:Sugar: A Novel

Source: Sugar: A Novel

“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.”

“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.”

Source: Black Theology and Black Power

“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.”

“Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.”

People Persons Justice White Responsibility Events Color Balance Racism Social Justice Privilege Racist Subconscious Reacting

Author:Eileen O'Brien

“Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.”

“The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.”

Men Giving Doe Matter Bigs Black White Color Ready Kissing Racism Fats Cures Black Or White Arses

Author:Wilbur Smith

“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?”

Feelings Difficult White Racism Folks Domination Subjugation

Book:Black Looks: Race and Representation

Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation

“White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.”

“White privilege is the other side of racism.”

Sides White Racism Privilege White Privilege

Author:Paula Rothenberg

“If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.”

Ifs Men Doe Whole Fall White Race Racism Drunk Damn Chairs White Man Racial Discrimination White Racism

Author:Bill Cosby

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”

Ifs Men Want Problem White Attitude Racism White Man

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“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.”

Persons Government Used Black White Talking Rich Politician Racism Injustice Average Corporate Racist Exploitation Not Talking Lackeys

Author:Bobby Seale

“The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.”

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.”

Black Water White Race Taste Racism Fountain

Author:B. B. King

“I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.”

Whole Wish Black White Race Racism

Author:Frank Zappa

“Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.”

“I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.”

Source: Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

“This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.”

People Persons Film Culture Differences White Race Share Identity Conflict Mass Racism Dear Mass Culture White Racism

Author:Justin Simien

“The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.”

Christian Culture Christ Church White Limits Racism Raised Height Christian Church

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.”

Source: Democracy in America

“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

“White folks still in the lead.”

Stills White Racism Folks

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.”

People Ifs Way Want Done America Law Black White Racism Work Out Right Thing Black People Advancement Advancing Black Racism White Racism

Author:Spike Lee

“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.”

Country White Half Achieve Behavior Racism Independence Tables Settlers Antipathy Smelly

Book:Home and exile and other selections

Source: Home and exile and other selections

“I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.”

Men World Heart May Matter Earth Understanding Black White Ego Racism Intelligent Cosmos White Man Intuitive Abandonment Incarnation Congo Fusion Armstrong

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.”

People Thinking Form Used Black Differences White Growing Middle Racism Europe Profound Focused Used To Be Black And White Eastern

Author:Montel Williams

“You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“One day blacks and whites will come together like the keys of a piano, and be as beautiful as the it makes”

Beautiful Peace Black White Proud Racism Hatred Harmony Accord Hereditary Collide Confederation National Agreements Join Ancestral Become One Ethnological Untiy

Author:O. S. Hickman

“With my white friends, I’m always half Mexican. They never say I’m half Irish. Never say I’m half white. Like I’m tainted halfway from the standard. It’s like when I was a kid and I thought vanilla ice cream meant no flavor, like it was the base of all of the flavors. But vanilla is a bean. Like chocolate is a bean. Like cinnamon is a root. All roots and beans. All flavors. There is no base. No ice cream without a flavor.”

White Race Racism Metaphor Mexican Hispanic Bill Konigsberg The Music Of What Happens

Book:The Music of What Happens

Source: The Music of What Happens

“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness.”

Black Justice White Race Racism Separation Racist Negro

Book:Black Like Me

Source: Black Like Me

“Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it. The fact is that despite their dreams, their lives are not inviolable. When their own vulnerability becomes real - when the police decide that tactics intended for the ghetto should enjoy wider visage, when their armed society shoots down their children, when nature sends hurricanes against their cities - they are shocked in a way that those of us who were born and bred to understand cause and effect can never be. And I would not have you live like them. You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.”

Black White Racism Meaning Of Life American Dream

Book:Between the World and Me

Source: Between the World and Me

“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he could look down at Turk. “It’s not just about freaks. I mean, you’re the guy who thinks of ideas and all, but you’re missing it. You don’t even notice that the whole council is either black or Mexican. See, that’s what’s happening: it’s all these minorities hooked up with freaks.” The wheels in Turk’s mind began to turn slowly. But they were picking up speed. “Jamal’s with us and he’s black.” “So? We use Jamal. He gets us into Albert’s. You do what you gotta do. All I’m saying is, you and me, we’re normal people. We’re not black or queer or Mexican. And we’re the ones digging toilets. How come?” Turk knew the answer: because they had failed in their attempt to take over. But he’d never thought about this new angle. “Astrid’s a normal white person,” Turk argued halfheartedly. “So’s Sam.” “Sam’s a freak, and I think he might even be a Jew,” Lance said. His eyes were glittering. He was showing his teeth, grinning as he talked. It wasn’t a good look for him. “And Astrid? She’s not even on the council anymore.”

White Normal Racism Prejudice Discrimination Minorities Council Sam Temple Astrid Ellison Turk Freaks Jamal Albert Lance

Book:Plague

Source: Plague

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