Quotes and Sayings About Racism
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
-- Al Sharpton -
Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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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.
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press
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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.â€Â - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
-- Albert Memmi -
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.
-- Albert Speer -
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
-- Alex Haley -
How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations
-- Alexander B. MorrisonSource : “No More Strangers” by Alexander B. Morrison, www.lds.org. September 2000.
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
-- Alice Childress -
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
-- Alice Walker -
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.
-- Alveda King -
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Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
-- Alveda King -
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.
-- Alveda King -
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
-- Alveda King -
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
-- Alvin AileySource : 1975 Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
-- Alvin Ailey -
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
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In America, black is a country.
-- Amiri BarakaSource : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books
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Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
-- Anderson Silva -
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Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
-- Andrew HackerSource : Andrew Hacker (2010). “Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
-- Andrew Young -
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
-- Angela Davis -
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
-- Angela Davis