#racism

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #happen #history #kind #know

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#black #boston #democrats #hating #history

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. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #become #breathing #inherit #institutional

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#expunge #going #here #i #must

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. ↗

— Lee Grant

#begun #childhood #documentary #fearlessness #fight

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#empowerment #ending #get #i #involved

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#away #cannot #morphine #ostracism #pain

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#economics #found #i #money #out

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience. ↗

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

#chicano #chicanos #identity #internalized-racism #experience

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. ↗

— Alveda King

#because #become #binds #cannot #commit