Racism And Sexism Quotes
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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
When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.
— Jacky Fleming
Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.
— Abhijit Naskar
Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.
— DaShanne Stokes
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
— Oprah Winfrey
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
— John Prendergast
But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we always say nothing?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
— Assata Shakur
The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.
— J.S.B. Morse
I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
— Sandra Bullock
Fear is the greatest incapacitator.
— Jenny Holzer
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
— Marco Beltrami
Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate?
— Ashly Lorenzana
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
— Constance Baker Motley
And I was angry because the media took racism seriously - or pretended to - but with sexism, they rarely bothered even to pretend.
— Gloria Steinem
We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.
— Steven M. Greer
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.
— Sete Gibernau
What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.
— Sara Sheridan
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
— Claude Pepper
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
— Pearl Cleage
We are all philosophers. The only question is to what extent is our philosophy sound!
— Chris Matakas
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism?
— Przemek Skwirczynski
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
— David Lindsay-Abaire
Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.
— Carrie Fisher
God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.
— Sunday Adelaja
Imagination ... when reality gets too stupid to live in.
— Sarah J. Pepper