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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.
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.
Race is a very sensitive subject.
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
I struggle with racism every day
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
Racism breeds racism in reverse.
Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.
Racism is a physical experience.
when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.
Racism is kinda old. For real,
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being
Mistaken belief that racial animus is necessary for the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of social control is the most important reason that we, as a nation, have remained in deep denial.
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
You face racism in small and large ways.
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
Because we often think of bias as a function of overt acts of bigotry, we can sometimes remain blind to the invisible structures, systems, and behaviors that bestow and reinforce that power and privilege on a daily basis.
Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.
The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Racism is a disease of white people
Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world
Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
Racism is devious. It creeps into your thinking and then creeps into your language and like any other habit, it's hard to break. From Celebrity Racist Rants, in The Kindle Book Controversy,
Racism is stupid. It's an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
Racism ... fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
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.
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
Abuse ... Injustice ... Hate ... Racism ... Are all the same! They're all WRONG!
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
What ignorance there is in human minds.
We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart. Iowa grandpas and nine-year-old girls from Ohio are simply not looking to visit 'a painful chastisement upon the Western infidels.
Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.
Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.
Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?
How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship.
One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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.
Prejudice is ignorance.
Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.
All is race - there is no other truth.
Prejudice. It's a bad thing. Once your mind is prejudiced, you will not think beneath or beyond. Actually, you will stop thinking.
Prejudice is a belief soaked in stupidity
Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education.
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
Some people want to have controversy between the races.
Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics.
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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.
One thing about prejudices
once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
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.
I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.
That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.
racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this.
People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
How do you feel," said a friend to me, "when you are hooted and jeered on the street on account of your color?" "I feel as if an ass had kicked, but had hit nobody," was my answer.
Game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Bigotry ravashes the human spirt like the winds of wildfire.
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
Discrimination is alive and soaring.
If there's anything I'm starting to learn about people it's (a) that they are fundamentally suspicious and afraid of anyone who is "different," and (b) that fear makes them do and say asinine things.
There's no racism with the Internet.
Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.