#racism

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#clearly #country #function #institutions #me

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#angels #defense #demons #evil #experiences

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#aids #angry #celebrity #celebrity thing #charge

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american society #believe #defend #end #every

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#odious #racism #sexism

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#door #down #i #i see #knock

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#both #come #country #discrimination #erase

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

#chauvinism #complicated #country #lot #make

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? ↗

— Judith Jamison

#agenda #badly #create #go #going