Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Racism holds no place in our game and it holds no place in society. But unfortunately there are going to be incidents.

I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

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

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

There's no such thing as racism, sexism, 'homophobi-ism,' 'Islamophobi-ism' - it's good versus evil, right versus wrong.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

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

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

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