Racism Quotes - Page 6

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Denying racism is the new racism.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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.