2,209 Quotes About Racism
- Author Noam Chomsky
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There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are very serious dangers: the species may be heading toward extinction. I can't see how anybody can fail to have an interest in trying to help people become more engaged in thinking about these problems and doing something about them.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite.
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- Author La Tisha Honor
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House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
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- Author Margalit Fox
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In the. Middle Ages and afterwards, Jews, like members of other marginalized groups, were denied the legal protections that England afforded the archetypal citizen: the free white native-born law-abiding Christian adult male.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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the planter class extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and black slaves
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, activists and others began to turn their attention to economic problems...The shift in focus served to align the goals of the Civil Rights Movement with key political goals of poor and working-class whites, who were also demanding economic reforms
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- Author Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
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Every time you decide how you are going to feel or think about a person based on a principle or standard that is unbiblical you have gone against God's code of love. Take this rule from me: You have never and will never look into the eyes of a person who God doesn't love as much as He loves you.
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- Author Oluseyi Akinbami
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I am a proud African, I will not substitute my beautiful ebony, It is strengths, my tissue is nature's shield from the sun, It radiates and glows, racist are ignorant of many things especially Geography.
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- Author Danny Castillones Sillada
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The Karen Syndrome—as I defined it based on the social media memes and viral videos about racial profiling and entitlement—refers not only to female racists but both sexes in different races who are suffering from extreme bigotry, illusory superiority, and entitlement on the pretext that they are the exceptional children of God, if not Satan.
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