Racism Quotes - Page 15

While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.

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.

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

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Racism really does exist.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.

Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.