Quotes and Sayings About Racism
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It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
-- Iris Chang -
If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.
-- Iris Marion Young -
Them white people made hate. They made hate just like they had a formula for it and followed that formula down to the last exact gallon of misery put in. Well ... that's what they made and that's what they got.
-- J. California Cooper -
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
-- J. Nozipo Maraire -
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.
-- Jack Kornfield -
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.
-- James A. Baldwin -
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
-- James A. Baldwin -
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.
-- James Abourezk -
My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
-- James Earl Jones -
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
-- James Fenton -
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.
-- James H. Cone -
I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
-- Jamie Foxx -
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
-- Jane Elliott -
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
-- Jane Elliott -
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
-- Jane Elliott -
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
-- Jane Elliott -
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
-- Janis Joplin -
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
-- Jasmine Guy -
We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.
-- Jean-Francois Cope -
I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.
-- Jean-Francois Cope -
People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.
-- Jerry Falwell -
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.
-- Jesmyn Ward -
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
-- Jesse Jackson -
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
-- Jesse Jackson