Affliction Quote by Jane Elliott Download Open image “Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned” — Jane Elliott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Inspirational Learning Love Racism
People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience. — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Racism is something that is taught. We, as a people, need to work to get past that. — Booker T Copy Share Image
Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power. — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
