Quotes tagged ‘Racism In America’

(13 total)

“You broke the contract.”

“Lucinda: Your major problem is you don’t listen and you completely submerge your feelings. Black men especially must learn to get in touch with their feelings, which the racist society has forced them to bury. They must listen so they can hear that inner homeboy and clock him. Linc: Inner homeboy?”

— Charles Randolph-Wright, Russell A. `Linc' Lincoln, Steven Williams, imdb.com

“The politics of racist and anti-Semitic hatred had moved into rural America, exploiting the farmers' desperation. Since I was the only Jew actively speaking and organizing with farmers, I mentioned my own Jewish background when appealing to the farmers to 'not let the worst of times bring out the wo…”

— Paul Wellstone, amazon.com

“President Donald Trump somehow made time to mock Asian leaders, who hosted him on his recent trip, during a speech meant to promote GOP tax bills moving through Congress.”

— Kimberley Yam, huffingtonpost.com

“As a young African American woman I don’t want to become another statistic. When it comes to college incidents/crimes and racial cases, justice needs to be served.”

— Chennel “Jazzy” Rowe, heavy.com

“I don’t want to get into the political argument of the guns and things. But what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us, and us killing ourselves.”

— Jon Stewart, washingtonpost.com

“In South Carolina, the roads that black people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road. That’s insanity. That’s racial wallpaper.”

— Jon Stewart, washingtonpost.com

“They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, countless daily indignities –- but they didn’t seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before.”

— Barack Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

“Race has been a constant arbiter of difference, as have wealth, class, and gender— each of which is about power and the necessity of control.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“Two years ago, I was naive.”

— Dorsey Fairbairn, postandcourier.com

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the d…”

— Martin Luther King Jr., americanrhetoric.com

“I know this s hard to hear, but... white supremacy benefits all white people. Including the ones with no torches. That’s why it survives.”

— Brittany Packnett, twitter.com