#racism

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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.


Richard Powers


#ever #grabs #live #others #racism

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.


Gary Ross


#another #controlling #environment #fascism #fears

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.


Tariq Ali


#racism

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'


Thomas Sowell


#demanding #evidence #ketchup #like #makes

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.


Albert Speer


#dizzy #grow #i #important #manufactured

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.


Henry Louis Gates


#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.


Stanley Crouch


#know #listening #never #people #racism

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.


Justin Sane


#fighting #great #history #i #listening

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.


Alex Haley


#behavior #characteristics #dissimilar #learned #our

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.


Gary L. Francione


#ageism #basic #being #community #deny