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“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.”

Inspirational Persons Motivational Wish Black Realizing Basketball Racism Black Racism

Author:Michael Jordan

“I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.”

Believe Wish Realizing Racism

Author:will.i.am

“I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly, my parents were lied to by their parents who were lied to by their parents and so on.”

Evil Wish Parent Taught Racism Sexism Lied Speciesism

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“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.”

Thinking Believe Heart Wish Situation My Heart Racism African American Sexism

Author:Sara Paretsky

“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.”

People Thinking Running Hate Wish Party Republican Racism Hated Republican Party

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.”

Law Time Wish Racism Discrimination Anti Discrimination

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.”

Wish Causes Religious Numbers Conflict Racism Manage Headlines Religious Conflict

Author:Tony Blair

“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”

America Choices Wish Can Do Memories Powerful Racism Hatred Prejudice Social Justice Indifference Apathy Dissent Mistrust Racism And Prejudice

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.”

Way May Action Values Belief Wish White Support Failing Racism Prejudice Structure Embrace Oppression Racist Domination

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.”

Thinking Want Needs Looks Stills I Can Pain Wish Stage Havens Positive Activity Racism Optimism Look Up Looking Forward Better Days Optimism And Hope Complete Happiness

Author:Rosa Parks

“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

“I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.”

World Said Different Wish Travel Racism Around The World Patriarchy Xenophobia

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.”

Kind Stills Real Problem Wish Strange Racism Tragic Racist Persist Enigma Tenacious

Book:Racism

Source: Racism

“Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”