#racism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #racism




Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?


Chris Rock


#comedy #race #racism #society #love

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.


Richard Weikart


#darwinism #ethnic-cleansing #eugenics #evolution #genocide

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.


Tim Wise


#national-myths #racism #africa

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.


Herman Cain


#achieve #back #because #being #excuse

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.


Harper Lee


#respect #family

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.


Eminem


#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #key

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.


Abraham Joshua Heschel


#hatred #man #maximum #minimum #racism

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.


Jane Elliot


#country #education #how #maintain #perpetuate

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.


Matthew Fox


#angels #defense #demons #evil #experiences

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.


Jamie Foxx


#aids #angry #celebrity #celebrity thing #charge