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• Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

  Michel Templet

  Topics in Racism

• Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

  Chris Crutcher

  Topics in Racism

• Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

  Rick Warren

  Topics in God, Racism

• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Fear, Racism

  Tags in Inclusion, Hatred, Tolerance

• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Dream, Humanity, Ideals, Justice, Opportunity, Racism

  Tags in Solidarity, Human Rights, Equality, Character, Creed, Credo

• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Equality, War, Creed, Credo

• You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

  Bobby Seale

  Topics in Racism

• People are asking me about the race problem…. I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem — whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Problem, Independence, Great

• Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Freedom, Better

• 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

  Topics in Racism

• Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in People, Scared

• 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

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Struggle

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

  Steve Mitchell

  Topics in Racism

• I couldn’t adjust to the racism in Florida.

  Sidney Poitier

  Topics in Racism

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Ourselves, Reject, Human, Community

• Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Men

• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Racism

• The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Nature, Racism

• We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Disease

• People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in People