Win The Life

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.-John Lennon

 

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.-Ezra Pound

 

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.-Susan Sontag

 

Our true nationality is mankind.- H. G. Wells

 

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.- Albert Einstein

 

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.-- Jane Elliot

 

We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.-- Jane Elliot

 

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.--William Faulkner

 

"While the legal, material, and even superficial requirements to eradicate racism are well known, its psychological and more deeply spiritual requirements have been persistently neglected-namely, the oneness of the human family. It is this principle of oneness that needs to be the driving force behind the struggle of uniting the races."--Sara Harrington

 

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.-- William Hazlitt

 

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

"A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves."-- E. Stanley Jones

 

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.-Alex Haley

 

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.-Denis Leary

 

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.-Robert Guillaume

 

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.-Alvin Ailey

 

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.-Angela Davis

 

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.-Stokely Carmichael

 

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.-Constance Baker Motley

 

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.-Eminem

 

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.-Constance Baker Motley

 

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.-Herschel Walker

 

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.-Tim Holden

 

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.-Huey Newton

 

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.-Carol Moseley Braun

 

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.-Sargent Shriver

 

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.-Richard Pryor

 

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.-Oliver Tambo

 

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.-Cate Blanchett

 

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.-Constance Baker Motley

 

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?-Judith Jamison

 

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

 

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.-Harry A. Blackmun

 

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.-Ingrid Newkirk

 

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.-Janeane Garofalo

 

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.-Patricia Ireland

 

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.-Wentworth Miller

 

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.-James Earl Jones

 

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.-Lee Grant

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.-Joe Slovo

 

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.-Stokely Carmichael

 

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.-Alvin Ailey

 

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.-Lucille Roybal-Allard

 

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.-Bob Cousy

 

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.-Sargent Shriver

 

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.-Angela Davis

 

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.-Pierre Berton

 

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.-Iris Chang

 

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.-Ruth Benedict

 

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

 

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.-Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.-Rosa Parks

 

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.-Miriam Makeba

 

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.-Patti LaBelle

 

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.-James Brown

 

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.-Patricia Ireland

 

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.-Constance Baker Motley

 

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.-Lisa Bonet

 

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.-Oprah Winfrey

 

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.-Shia LaBeouf

 

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.-Charles Rangel

 

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.-Robert Guillaume

 

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.-Robert Guillaume

 

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.-Eldridge Cleaver

 

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.-Jasmine Guy

 

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

 

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.-Ann Coulter

 

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.-Danny Glover

 

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.-Alvin Ailey

 

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.-Afrika Bambaataa

 

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.-Newt Gingrich