Ends Quote by Maia Szalavitz Download Open image “We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.” — Maia Szalavitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ends Racism Racist
We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people. — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. — Saikat Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges… — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from. — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you. — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist — Michael Hutchence Copy Share Image
“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.' — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
