#racism

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#black sheep #definitely #discomfort #family #grandmother

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#came #clearly #concerned #experienced #feminist

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. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#been #black #could #ghetto #growing

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. ↗

— Eminem

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #key

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#beauty #conciousness #contempt #create #creative

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#deterrent #excellence #racism #sexism

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#best #deterrent #excellence #how #i

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#american dream #asian #barriers #challenges #dream

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#deep #deep end #end #frankly #hide