Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steven Morrissey

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

Sister Souljah

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

Michael Hutchence

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

Jesse Jackson

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

Fran Lebowitz

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Jerry West

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Eric Williams

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

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.

Christopher Lasch

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

F. L. Lucas

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Hannah Kearney

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.