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• 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

• Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

  Michel Templet

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Bobby Seale

  Topics in 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

  Topics in Racism

• 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

• 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’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

• 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

• 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

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

  Walter Lang

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Concept

• 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

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• 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