RACISM QUOTES III

quotations about racism

Racism ... What nonsense.

LARRY BOND

Vortex


Racism is a social disease that thrives on willful ignorance.

TIMOTHY MCGETTIGAN & EARL SMITH

A Formula for Eradicating Racism


Even the most blatant bigots, when made aware of their racism, can change.

CHARLES R. RIDLEY

Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy

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It is impossible to eliminate racism without first acknowledging all of its perpetrators.

CHARLES R. RIDLEY

Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy


Racism is a social-psychological disorder with an appalling mortality rate.

TIMOTHY MCGETTIGAN & EARL SMITH

A Formula for Eradicating Racism


I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

JAMES BALDWIN

"Letter from a Region of My Mind", The New Yorker, November 17, 1962

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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

KEN LIVINGSTONE

commentary, The Guardian, March 4, 2005

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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Soul on Ice


I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt.

JAMES BALDWIN

Autobiographical Notes

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Racists always try to make you think they are the majority, but they never are.

TONI MORRISON

interview with Eugene Redmond, Toni Morrison: Conversations


I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient -- intellectual, emotional -- about such people.

TONI MORRISON

interview with Zia Jaffrey, Toni Morrison: Conversations

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In all manifestations of racism from the mildest to the most severe, what is being denied is the possibility that the racializers and the racialized can coexist in the same society, except perhaps on the basis of domination and subordination.

GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON

Racism: A Short History

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Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty.

RON PAUL

"Government and Racism", speech in United States House of Representatives, April 16, 2007

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Under the guise of eugenic improvement and racial purity, and what the implementation of eugenic measures could supposedly do to improve human society, notions of racial superiority continued in popularity, but with a purported scientific foundation.

DANIEL J. FAIRBANKS

Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race


If we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example ... I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

speech, October 17, 1960

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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird

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There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY

attributed, This Little Light of Mine

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If we are to have that harmony and tranquility, that union of spirit which is the foundation of real national genius and national progress, we must all realize that there are true Americans who did not happen to be born in our section of the country, who do not attend our place of religious worship, who are not of our racial stock, or who are not proficient in our language. If we are to create on this continent a free republic and an enlightened civilization that will be capable of reflecting the true greatness and glory of mankind, it will be necessary to regard these differences as accidental and unessential. We shall have to look beyond the outward manifestations of race and creed. Divine providence has not bestowed upon any race a monopoly of patriotism and character.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

speech at American Legion Convention in Omaha, Nebraska, "Toleration and Liberalism", October 6, 1925

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