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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Oprah Winfrey
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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.
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Montel Williams
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
Author:
Oliver Tambo
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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.
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Albert Speer
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No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
Author:
Joe Slovo
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We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Author:
Bobby Seale
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
Author:
Evan Sayet
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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Author:
Claude Pepper
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Author:
Rand Paul
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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Rosa Parks
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Author:
Huey Newton
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Author:
Huey Newton
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
Author:
Ingrid Newkirk
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I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
Author:
Constance Motley
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
Author:
Constance Motley
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
Author:
Constance Motley
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
Author:
Constance Motley
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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.
Author:
Steve Mitchell
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Author:
Ed Markey
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Author:
Miriam Makeba
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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
Author:
Walter Lang
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I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
Author:
Shia LaBeouf
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I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
Author:
Patti LaBelle
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
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Coretta King
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
Author:
Florynce Kennedy
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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.
Author:
James Jones
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We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
Author:
Judith Jamison
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Author:
Michael Hutchence
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Author:
Tim Holden
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Author:
Alex Haley
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If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.
Author:
Robert Guillaume
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I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
Author:
Robert Guillaume
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Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
Author:
Robert Guillaume
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My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Author:
Lee Grant
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
Author:
Danny Glover
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If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
Author:
Edward Furlong
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Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Author:
Matthew Fox
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Author:
Eminem
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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.
Author:
Angela Davis
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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.
Author:
Angela Davis
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You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
Author:
Stanley Crouch
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
Author:
Bob Cousy
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Author:
Eldridge Cleaver
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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.
Author:
Iris Chang
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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
Author:
Stokely Carmichael
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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
Author:
Stokely Carmichael
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
Author:
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
Author:
Betty Buckley
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I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
Author:
James Brown
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Author:
Carol Braun
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
Author:
Billy Bragg
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Author:
Lisa Bonet
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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
Author:
Julian Bond
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Author:
Cate Blanchett
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Author:
Harry Blackmun
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Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
Author:
Pierre Berton
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
Author:
Ruth Benedict
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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.
Author:
Afrika Bambaataa
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Author:
Lucille Allard
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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
