347 Quotes About Racism-in-america
- Author Connor Towne O'Neill
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But if we are ever to gain a clearer sense of who we’ve been, and thus who we are as white Americans, we are going to need to revise the story.
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- Author Connor Towne O'Neill
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Of course it all rests on the unshakable belief that the men and women Forest bought and sold into enslavement were subhuman. But many in America have held and hold such beliefs. We know about Forest, specifically, because he was born poor on the frontier and availed himself of the opportunities to advance in the country and an economy built on the backs of others. You might say he pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but those bootstraps were other human beings.
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- Author Germany Kent
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Racial equality is a prize worth fighting for.
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- Author Germany Kent
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In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against divisiveness and racism by standing up for what is right and showing that we are braver and stronger together.
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- Author James Morris Robinson
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I do not believe that Caucasians of the western world are inherently evil. What I do believe is that the powerful subliminal effect of institutionalized racism in American…encouraged and empowered Caucasians to do evil and unimaginable things to people of all colors. ~Commander Jeff - Genesis
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- Author Alcurtis Turner
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This world will turn you into a mean and bitter person if you let it. You have purpose, you are better then what people my perceive you as. Don't let the world change your spirit, mind, thoughts and soul.
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- Author W.E.B. Du Bois
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To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.
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- Author Henry Johnson Jr
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I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.
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- Author James Baldwin
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I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.
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