#racism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #racism




Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.


Denis Leary


#end #folks #hates #i #know

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.


Audre Lorde


#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.


Audre Lorde


#black #bored #each #get #hand

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.


Miriam Makeba


#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.


Ed Markey


#also #board #brown #celebrate #certainly

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.


Steven Patrick Morrissey


#common #common sense #our #place #racism

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.


Constance Baker Motley


#environment #i #i was born #nation #officially

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.


Constance Baker Motley


#century #class #class warfare #goes #i

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.


Constance Baker Motley


#african #african americans #battling #century #major

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.


Huey Newton


#capitalism #destroy #evils #fight #must