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~ Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~

~ Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship. ~

Vincent F. Rocchio

~ Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ~

Alice Foote MacDougall

~ 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

~ In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ~

Harry A. Blackmun

~ In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ~

Harry A. Blackmun

~ The biggest problem through out the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly. ~

Erik Hansen

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

Dennis Leary

~ In all manifestations of racism from the mildest to the most severe, what is being denied is the possibility that the racializers and the racialized can coexist in the same society, except perhaps on the basis of domination and subordination. ~

George M. Fredrickson

~ Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim. ~

Albert Memmi

~ Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans. ~

Vincent F. Rocchio

~ Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then. ~

Spike Lee

~ Even the most blatant bigots, when made aware of their racism, can change. ~

Charles R. Ridley

~ There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism. ~

Florynce R. Kennedy

~ Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises. ~

Albert Memmi

~ 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

~ If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism. ~

Ann Coulter

~ If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. ~

Danny Glover

~ Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons- but they're not out there. ~

Matthew Fox

~ He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win. ~

Derek Luke

~ Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. ~

Adrienne Rich

~ At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being ~

Friedrich Otto Hertz

~ You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ~

Bobby Seale

~ We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? ~

Judith Jamison

~ There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. ~

Albert Memmi

~ 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†

~ Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. ~

Lewis H. Lapham

~ I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are. ~

Felicity Huffman

~ Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work ~

Angela Davis

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