#is

People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'. ↗

— Ray Davis

#prejudice #racism #racism

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. ↗

— Malcolm X

#non-violence #racism #revolution #racism

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#lunacy #liberalism

Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#lauren-barnholdt #sizeism #racism

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones. ↗

— Andrew Stephen Damick

#christianity #eastern-orthodox-church #orthodox-christianity #orthodoxy #experience

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored ↗

— Oglala Lakota

#racism #racism

العنصرية هي الاعتقاد بأن الاختلاف في العنصر يؤدي الي اختلاف السلوك والقدرات ↗

— علاء الأسواني

#العنصرية #racism

..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#oppression #racism

Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.' 'That's not even the right kind of racist. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#racism

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial