Has beens Quote by Angela Davis Download Open image “We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.” — Angela Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Has beens Inspirational Love Racism Should
As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Talking about what any one section of our society has to do to combat racism just stops people outside that group asking difficult questions… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist. — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur. — Ilyasah Shabazz Copy Share Image
I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image