#racism

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it. ↗

— Montel Williams

#black #black and white #differences #eastern #europe

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people. ↗

— Steve Mitchell

#downplay #everyone #exists #great #mistrust

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#hatred #man #maximum #minimum #racism

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#down #insides #matter #quite #racism

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#elite #face #find #live #racism

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. ↗

— Julian Bond

#black #capable #else #racism #reporters

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

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#experience #imagine #judicial #latina #makes

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