#racism

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

Achievement has no color ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #racism #inspirational

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#against #decision #differ #everyone #exposed

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

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#down #insides #matter #quite #racism

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#elite #face #find #live #racism

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#means #must #racism #treat #understand