Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Elliott

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Coretta Scott King

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Tariq Ramadan

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Toni Morrison

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Russell Peters

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Steven Morrissey

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Michelle Malkin

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

Sister Souljah

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Jessica Capshaw

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

Immanuel Kant

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Malcolm X

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.