#racism

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

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#black #mistrust #people #racism #white

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

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

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 may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#america #believe #block #ever #great

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. ↗

— Tim Holden

#confront #consequences #examine #forces #holocaust

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#evolutionary #exist #fashioned #going #natural