Quotes About Racism

Anti-violence politics, along with other revolutionary impulses, changed from a focus on working to transform patriarchy, racism, and poverty to cooperation and integration with the police. This has proven to be a significant turn because the police are, ironically, the embodiment of patriarchy, racism, and the enforcement of the US class system.

Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

There's no way the thing would have been so completely smothered if the victims hadn't been a nigger and a Jap. Well, there might be nothing he could to do for them, but at least he could prevent Monique's little brother from swinging in the breeze.

By treating blacks as inferior, such policies were an affront to their dignity. This would be true even if these policies had not been accompanied by widespread material harm—even if, for example, the separate facilities had been truly equal (which they were not). Some

Catastrophic climate change is the natural consequence of global systemic violence. That means, it is intimately connected with racism, sexism, classism, militarism, war, nuclear weapons, and every form of violence. If we want to deepen our nonviolence and our conscious oneness with the earth, we have to connect the various facets of systemic violence with environmental destruction so we know what we are up against, what we are resisting, and how broad out creative nonviolence needs to go.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Jack Warner "didn't want any niggers on his lot." At another studio where he was being considered for a publicity position, he learned that the all-Negro cast of Cabin in the Sky was excluded from the whites-only commissary.

Fight reasons and context that cause racism, not just the term.

Hatred, racism, discrimination, distinction, and vainglory germinate in the soil of ego.

Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.

No one can hide and stop the stink of ego, racism, distinction, and discrimination.

When an Order misuses the Law in the context of Law and Order in a democratic state, it describes and pictures as fascism, racism, and majority dictatorship. Indeed, it mirrors the mindset of ruling power precisely.

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.

The brutal consequences of "monkey" arise because that word removes some of us from humanity, placing us among nonhuman animals in the natural world. "Monkey" strengthens racist, ableist, and speciesist hierarchies. Once a person is deemed not human, then all sorts of violence become acceptable.

If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of color or you power or lack of power.

racism refers to the belief in a natural hierarchy that places blacks at the bottom, and the tendency of whites to judge their own worth by distance from that bottom.

There's a lot of racism around. I am always puzzled when people have that attitude. I went to a place where people were nice to me. It was something that stuck with me. I learned to treat people the same.

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.