"Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms."
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"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
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"We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances."
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"Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals."
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"There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room."
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"Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?"
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"Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?"
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"Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman."
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"Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."
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"If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language"
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"I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself."
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"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
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"I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension."
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"We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way."
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"I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism."
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"I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct."
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"While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism."
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"Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse."
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"I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa."
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"Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure."
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