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• The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It’s their problem. If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. I’ll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.

  Rosie Perez

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Down

• Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

  Rosa Parks

  Topics in Children, Racism

• If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

  Edward Furlong

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in People

• 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 B Rangel

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Need, Come

• I’m not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity’s problem rather than my personal problem.

  Robert Guillaume

  Topics in Humanity, Racism

  Tags in Hurt

• I’ve certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

  Robert Guillaume

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Someone, Made

• Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

  Cate Blanchett

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Bad, Violence

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

  Eminem

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Music

• There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  Walter Lang

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Concept

• First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

  Evan Sayet

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Liberals, Coded

• What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  Rand Paul

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Overturn

• A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

  Saul Alinsky

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Community

• Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

  Audre Lorde

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Literary

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  Alan Whitney Brown

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Law And Lawyers, Killing

• There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Topics in Influence, Justice, Power, Racism, Service

  Tags in Injustice, Values, Strength

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

  Alvin Ailey

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Achieve, Tears

• Racism, as we would characterize it today, was explicit in the writings of virtually all the major anthropologists of the first decades of this century, simply because it was the generally accepted world view. The language of the epic tale so often employed by Arthur Keith, Grafton Elliot Smith, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and their contemporaries fitted perfectly an imperialistic view of the world, in which Caucasians were the most revered product of a grand evolutionary march to nobility.

  Unknown

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Roger Lewin, School

• Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack ran so we all can fly.

  Unknown

  Topics in History, Racism

  Tags in Hope

• But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Heaven