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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!"
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"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."
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"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."
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"The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist presumption. It is only when that presumption is questioned that a fine analysis of ancestry is invoked. Frederick Douglass was an ordinary nigger while working the fields. But as a famed abolitionist, it was often said that his genius must derive from his white half."
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"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
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"What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little - if any - recourse for finding a way around it."
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"A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?"
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"The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black."
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"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."
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"I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq."
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"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."
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"The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention."
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"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
Racism
"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
Crime
"The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way."
Equality
"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
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