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Racism Quotes

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time"

"The truth about racism: It’s all about control."

"The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness."

"But race is the child of racism, not the father"

"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists"

"The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black."

"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in a perilous mythology."

"There is no vaccine for racism."

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever."

"The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at."

"I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down."

"Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains"

"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone"

"To call someone anti-American, indeed to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination."

"Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience."

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