(226 quotes found)
“Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.”
Julian Bond
“Some people feel that there's some racism involved, ... I'm wondering myself.”
Gregory Jackson
“Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.”
Roy Keane
“(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers”
Albert Einstein
“We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?”
Jane Elliott
“There was so much meanness in the atmosphere, ... but marvelous things pierce through the darkness of poverty and racism. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.”
Ruby Dee
“We found that perceived racism impacts the quality of their sleep and that disturbed sleep is related to depression. Individuals who have experienced racism could be thinking about what happened the previous day, feeling stressed about their ability to succeed when being judged by something other than merit ? skin tone or a different way of speaking. Sleep is the pathway through which racism affects depression.”
Patrick Steffen
“If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.”
Edward Furlong
“This isn't about hatred. This isn't about racism. We stand against a broken system that has failed all of us.”
Tim Donnelly
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
Dorothy Allison