#racism

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#best #deterrent #excellence #how #i

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

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

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#clearly #country #function #institutions #me

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#because #breaking #citizens #fellow #fellow citizens

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

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

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. ↗

— Huey Newton

#gun #hand #his #make #only

Some white people Hate black people, and some white people Love black people, Some black people Hate white people, and some black people Love white people. So you see, it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters. ↗

— Eden Ahbez

#love