Racism Quotes - Page 10

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach a certain age, you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual and I think that's rather hideous. [...] I mean, is there a rule? Are you just supposed to die when you're 40?

The only thing that goes with Crocs is social Ostracism.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

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.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.