Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Brownstein

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

bell hooks

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

Jack Ryan

Sexism isn't a woman's problem, it's a man's problem.