163 Quotes About Race-and-racism-in-america
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- Author William H. Grier
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In America, the role of blacks, as for humans everywhere, is to live and flourish and to be fit progenitors for generations to come. To do so, they must oppose racism in an unrelenting way. Psychiatry for such warriors aims to keep them fit for the duty at hand and healthy enough to enjoy the victories that are certain to come.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
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- Author Susan Fanetti
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It’s different when people who’ve been living under somebody’s boot hate the foot the boot’s on. An oppressed people can’t be racist. They can be bigots, but not racist. You have to have power to be a racist...
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- Author Aberjhani
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The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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What matter most is to complete the journey.
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- Author Brien Pittman
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I have no faith in salvation thru technology. I think that technology will have no appreciable saving effect upon humanity. Today, humans are now only more technology-dependent - not more happy - not more wise - nor more enlightened than they were 6000 years ago
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
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