Quotes About Racism

There is a fire raging, and we have two choices: we can turn our backs, or we can try to fight it. Yes, talking about racism is hard to do, and yes, we stumble over the words - but we who are white need to have this discussion among ourselves. Because then, even more of us will overhear, and - I hope - the conversation will spread.

On one side of the seesaw is my education. My nursing certification. My twenty years of service at the hospital. My neat little home. My spotless RAV4. My National Honor Society-inductee son. All of these building blocks of my existence, and yet the only quality straddling the other side is so hulking and dense that it tips the balance every time: my brown skin.

Most of us think the word racism is synonymous with the word prejudice. But racism is more than just discrimination based on skin color. It's also about who has institutional power. Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make success easier to achieve. It's hard to see those advantages, much less own up to them. And that, I realized, was why I had to write this book.

Do you think there will ever be a time when racism doesn't exist? No, because that means white people would have to buy into being equal. Who'd choose to dismantle the system that makes them special

THEY PUT ME IN CHAINS. Just like that, they shackle my hands in front of me, as if that doesn't send two hundred years of history running through my veins like an electric current. As if I can't feel my great-great-grandmother and her mother standing on an auction block. They put me in chains, and my son—who I've told, every day since he was born, You are more than the color of your skin—my son watches.

Because race is different. Racism is different. It's fraught, and it's hard to discuss, and so as a result we often don't.

But I'm even more cautious with the white ones in the pickup trucks with Confederate flags hanging in the back windows. Because I used to be who they are, and I know what they are capable of.

even if we took every white supremacist on the planet and shipped them off to Mars, there would still be racism. That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if we don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.

But passive racism? It's noticing there's only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It's reading your kid's fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why.

Structural violence is expressed by the dominant society in racism, sexism, shunning, discrimination, among other ostracizing practices, and it restricts individuals from partaking in the opportunities afforded to those of a higher social status. Structural violence is covert and subtle and is perpetrated by social institutions (e.g., the government).

It must be pretty awful for a white man to learn that one of the things wrong with this society is that it is not based on dollars directly or alone, but dollars denied men who are black so dollars can go into the pockets of men who are white. It must make white men ponder a kind of weakness that will make them deny work to black men so that work can be done by men who are white.

Heil Hitler

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Racism can happen anywhere, in everyday life as well, but it's always very sad, it shouldn't happen.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.