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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. -- Angela Davis
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. -- Shirley Chisholm
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. -- Denis Leary
Racism really does exist. -- Normani Hamilton
Racism springs from ignorance. -- Mario Balotelli
Racism is a visual pathology. -- Adrian Piper
Racism is a worldwide problem... -- Patterson Hood
Racism and hatred are synonymous. -- Alex Haley
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. -- Angela Davis
Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. -- DaShanne Stokes
Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers. -- Alton Brown
Racism is kinda old. For real, -- Matt Kemp
Racism is ugly. Racism is bad -- sami abouzid
Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous. -- Justin Simien
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. -- Sargent Shriver
Racism is the snobbery of the poor. -- Raymond Aron
Racism is a blight on the human conscience -- Nelson Mandela
Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from. -- Alan Ball
Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity -- Anderson Silva
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends. -- Sidney Poitier
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. -- Ayn Rand
Racism is still alive they just be concealing it -- Kanye West
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? -- Joseph Brodsky
Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world -- Pope Francis
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. -- John McWhorter
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. -- John McWhorter
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. -- Ayn Rand
Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody. -- Carlos Mencia
Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society. -- Stefan Emunds
Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. -- Steven Pinker
Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. -- Sepp Blatter
Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure. -- Willie D
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. -- Arthur Ashe
Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change? -- Bo Burnham
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. -- Steven Morrissey
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer. -- Andrew Hacker
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. -- Steven Morrissey
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. -- Richard Pryor
Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might. -- Jacqueline Woodson
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned -- Jane Elliott
Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another. -- Neal Boortz
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. -- Jayson Blair
Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped. -- Gloria Steinem
Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man. -- Albert Einstein
Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it. -- ASAP Ferg
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. -- Ruby Bridges
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. -- Bobby Seale
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. -- Christopher Hitchens
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. -- Billy Graham
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. -- Ruth Wilson
Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God. -- Michael Pfleger
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. -- Assata Shakur
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. -- Billy Bragg
Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life. -- Sandra Bullock
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races. -- Nate Silver
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist. -- Sister Souljah
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. -- Alvin Ailey
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them. -- DaShanne Stokes
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. -- Margaret Cho
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. -- Michael Hutchence
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination." -- Ayn Rand
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist -- Michael Hutchence
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. -- Ayn Rand
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. -- Shirley Chisholm
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. -- Shirley Chisholm
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. -- Alex Haley
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. -- Sargent Shriver
Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next. -- R.N. Prasher
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. -- Margaret Walker
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
Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again. -- Marita Golden
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds. -- J. Nozipo Maraire
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. -- Ron Paul
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family. -- Michael Jackson
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. -- Ruth Benedict
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it. -- Paul Mooney
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. -- Ruth Benedict
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. -- Steve Sailer
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power. -- Jane Elliott
There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism. -- Chris Rock
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise -- Assata Shakur
Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas -- Marieta Maglas
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been. -- Angela Davis
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
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom! -- Bryce Courtenay
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. -- Malcolm X
Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff? -- Allan Dare Pearce
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. -- Cornel West
Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk. -- Alanis Obomsawin
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another -- Jane Urquhart
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. -- Iris Chang
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies. -- Mandawuy Yunupingu
Racism is one of the worst things that happened to our human race. It has brainwashed many to focus on one's race or complexion instead of one's personality. -- Edmond Mbiaka
The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it. -- John Rocker
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld. -- Sarah Churchwell
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. -- Robert Guillaume
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. -- Pierre Berton
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism. -- Sepp Blatter
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts. -- Cliff Curtis
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists' -- Thomas Sowell
Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here. -- Khalid Abdul Muhammad
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism. -- Toni Morrison
CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up.... -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. -- Desmond Tutu
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
If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America. -- Claudia Rankine
If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. -- Stokely Carmichael
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. -- Ruth Benedict
Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either. -- Simon S. Tam
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. -- Terry Pratchett
Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me. -- Stephanie Perkins
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management. -- Thomas Sowell
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Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated. -- Malcolm X
Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around. -- William Deane

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