Quotes with racism

  • As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
  • If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
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  • Oprah Winfrey I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Assata Shakur Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bell Hooks As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Audre Lorde Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Alija Izetbegovic 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.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • Audre Lorde 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.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bell Hooks Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Malcolm X I am a Muslim and my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Albert Speer 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.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Bell Hooks I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver 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.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Ann Coulter If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa 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.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Assata Shakur Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael 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.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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