Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
– TaNehisi Coates
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- Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn’t appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff? – Allan Dare Pearce
- To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. – TaNehisi Coates
- The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. – TaNehisi Coates
- Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father. – TaNehisi Coates
- You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. – TaNehisi Coates
- To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers. – TaNehisi Coates
- You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. – TaNehisi Coates
- My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. – TaNehisi Coates
- There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. – TaNehisi Coates
- I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. – TaNehisi Coates
- Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. – TaNehisi Coates
- I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. – TaNehisi Coates
- I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. – TaNehisi Coates
- The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members. – Carter F Smith
- It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. – Oscar Wilde
- Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that’s when you’ll know racism is not fun. – Werley Nortreus
- Racism is not funny, because it won’t solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great. – Werley Nortreus
- You cannot fix racism with more racism. – Christina Engela
- Racism breeds racism in reverse. – Mary Brave Bird
- The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists. – The Prophet of Life
- Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group – and their own. – Christina Engela
- This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely. – James Redfield
- a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done – Fred Allen
- Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. – Clay Shirky
- Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. – Keri Wyatt Kent
- Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. – Keri Wyatt Kent
- The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone. – Andr Alexis
- No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. – Judith Spencer
- God did not create humans to be confused about God, Humans confused humans about God – John LaFaver Sr
- Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too. – Beth Fantaskey
- America’s racism is among their own fellow whites. That’s where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. – Malcolm X
- Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges. – DaShanne Stokes
- Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – DaShanne Stokes
- Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn’t know what he was doing. – Kurt Eichenwald
- People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned. – DaShanne Stokes
- Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it? – Mark Twain
- We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth. – Bryant McGill