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" A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. "
Maya Angelou
" Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. "
Alveda King
" Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular. "
Alveda King
" African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. "
Bebe Moore Campbell
" Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. "
Dennis Prager
" After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south. "
Ilyasah Shabazz
" A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding. "
Robin DiAngelo
" Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. "
Claude Pepper
" Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms. "
Hugh Hefner
" All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. "
Rita Moreno
" All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. "
Philip Kerr
" All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away. "
Roger Ross Williams
" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "
Kanye West
" A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story. "
Margot Lee Shetterly
" Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system. "
Robin DiAngelo
" Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. "
Harry Belafonte
" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "
Gloria Steinem
" And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. "
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
" Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world. "
Mona Eltahawy
" Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe. "
Opal Tometi
" Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities. "
Opal Tometi
" Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
" 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. "
Jean-Francois Cope
" Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. "
Walter Lang
" Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism. "
Matt Mead
" As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there. "
Jordan Peele
" As an Egyptian, I was glad to see the film 'Black Panther' embrace my country with its inclusion of the Ancient Egyptian goddess Bast as the deity of Wakandans. But considering the anti-black racism against the Nubian indigenous community and visitors in my country, I knew Egypt would not return the love. "
Mona Eltahawy
" 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. "
Al Sharpton
" As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly. "
Kenya Barris
" As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives. "
Robin DiAngelo
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