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Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

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I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

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While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

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Alexander von HumboldtCosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe: Part One

The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

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A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

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Alice WalkerIn Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-lo...

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In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would ...

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Andrew TobiasThe Best Little Boy in the World

It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible...

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Ann CoulterMugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

I love analogies! Let’s have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind o...

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When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...

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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...

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Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...

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To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or an...

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It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...

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Ashley MontaguThe Dehumanization Of Man

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

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If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...

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Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was...

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Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them wi...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "prot...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that ...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating i...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis...

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Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

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Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

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The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor...

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Bell hooksFeminist Theory: From Margin to Center

A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppres...

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Bell hooksKilling Rage: Ending Racism

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...

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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone e...

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Buchi EmechetaSecond Class Citizen

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been cond...

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Buchi EmechetaSecond Class Citizen

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not b...

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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

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Carlos FuentesMyself with Others: Selected Essays

He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n...

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Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd ha...

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Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with ...

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Celeste NgLittle Fires Everywhere

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will al...

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In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin...

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Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. ...

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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that c...

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Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dea...

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But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we ...

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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

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Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I w...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

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And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader w...

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Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosex...

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Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate...

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Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal...

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An elevator doesn’t exist without its freight. If there’s no one to get on, the elevator remains in ...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Intuitionist

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with bl...

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Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it i...

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There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm ...

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Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindian...

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For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too...

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There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomf...

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I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the po...

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Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled...

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What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even d...

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After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolo...

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& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.

If I'm walking down an American street and anyone darker than a peanut shell approaches, I'll say, "...

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David SedarisLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls

The Left would like to believe that racism—not the breakdown of marriage and family, the absence of ...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and ...

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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pre...

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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I...

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human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything bu...

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I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of m...

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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...

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At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there...

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

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous pres...

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War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But th...

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At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of th...

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Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the co...

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