{"quotes":[{"text":"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["hate","hate-crimes","hate","haters","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","segregation"],"id":10868,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","gay-rights","hate","hatred","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","oppression","oppression","political-correct","political-correctness","political-spins","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","power","privilege","privileges","propaganda","propaganda","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","racist","silence","silence","silencing","silencing-dissent","silencing-others","spin","spinning","unearned-blessings"],"id":12055,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the hateful, profane, condescending way some have expressed their discontent that baffles me. How do you criticize actions you've deemed disrespectful and divisive and an affront to civilized behavior with rhetoric to the same end? That's like the devil judging the Grim Reaper for harvesting souls.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["carlos-wallace","race-and-racism-in-america","racial-discrimination","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racist"],"id":19940,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the “gentleman and soldier.” However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["christianity","history","propaganda","racism-in-america","romanticism","slavery","wendell-berry","woundedness"],"id":32637,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property. This type can be recorded by television cameras; it can frequently be observed in the process of commission. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts. But it is no less destructive of human life. The second type originates in the operation of established and respected forces in the society, and thus receives far less public condemnation than the first type. When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city - Birmingham, Alabama - five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism. When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which many people will condemn - at least in words. But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it.","author":"Stokely Carmichael","tags":["health-care","institutional-oppression","poverty","racism","racism-in-america","slums","terrorism"],"id":36975,"author_id":"Stokely+Carmichael"},{"text":"The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...They did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","history","martin-luther-king-jr","racism","racism-in-america","segregation","timing"],"id":46042,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","gay-rights","honor","honor","honorable","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","prejudice","prejudices","race","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","reason","reasonable"],"id":46960,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the second kids, the abused ones, so they still hate Dad. Latinos are the third, caught in the middle and always trying to make peace between the other siblings. Asians are the youngest, and get good marks in school, but basically are just trying to keep their heads down and not get involved. And Native Americans are the old uncle who owns a house and everyone else in the family was like, 'He's not using that! Let's move in!","author":"Colin Quinn","tags":["america","american-culture","american-history","americans","ethnic-stereotypes","ethnicity","race","racial-prejudice","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","stereotypes","stereotyping","u-s-culture"],"id":52776,"author_id":"Colin+Quinn"},{"text":"Building bridges takes us further than building walls.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigoted","bigotry","building-bridges","building-bridges-not-walls","building-bridges","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","gay-rights","hate","hatred","immigration","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","prejudice","prejudiced","prejudices","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religion-spirituality","religious-tolerance","tolerance","tolerance"],"id":61272,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","bigot","bigotry","blame","blame-game","discrimination","economy","immigrants","immigration","minorities","minority","minority-rights","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-in-america","racism","self-awareness","white-nationalism","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":64766,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}