#racism

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

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#answer #appointment #behalf #ceo #children

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#even #high #high school #i #just

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference. ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#making-a-difference #racism #teaching #racism

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96 ↗

— Terry Brooks

#prejudice #racism #racism

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. ↗

— Zenna Henderson

#games #racism #racism

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people. ↗

— Christopher Huh

#racism #wwii-fiction #wwii-history #racism

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#racism #racism

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

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