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Black people across America still experience racism every day. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do? – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin, racism has plagued the United States since its inception. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Racism has plagued the United States since its inception. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You have to address race, but you can't address race only, you have to address class and the economic system. Even if you got rid of racism, the Southern economic model still exists. It's unchanged. – Michael Lind	Found on CNN 8 years ago
America was built on the backs of racism. – William Ray III	Found on CNN 8 years ago
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
According to psychological and public health research, microaggressions can lead to negative health consequences including heart disease, diabetes,depressionand substance abuse, these statements may seem innocent, but…they underhandedly and subtly undermine the very real experiences with racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. – Oi Yan Poon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These statements may seem innocent, but…they underhandedly and subtly undermine the very real experiences with racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. – Oi Yan Poon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows, to that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag in the U.S. finds ideological affinity with the old South African flag. Both flags show off past injustice and neither flag represents the idealism of breaking from divisive pasts in search of new, inclusive realities. – Eusebius McKaiser	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's disingenuous to have a discussion about racism and not point to the language of racism. – Jabari Asim	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He still has a ways to go in talking about racism and I had hoped he would be more assertive in his second term, he needs to address the idea that white people need to have a conversation about race among themselves. It's the silent majority of white people who benefit from privilege and that needs to be topic one. – Jabari Asim	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public, that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say n----- in public, that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I grew up when racism was just a way of life, i wouldn't have been surprised if it was somebody 60, 70 years old who had that much hate, but where does this hate come from? – Mary Meynardie	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's time to step up by destroying racism. i'm trying to get over the shooting of Walter Scott and now we're getting hit with this hand grenade, this atomic bomb. How do you explain this to yourself? This was a racially motivated shooting. It wasn't a gas leak. – Dearrick DeSaussure	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The reality that racism is alive and well and that we have a problem with guns. – Clayborne Carson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I believe that the first most important thing regardless of what a person does is that they have integrity, rachel has done really good work fighting against racism and police brutality ... but she went about it the wrong way. She said I was born black. I grew up black and I know what it's like growing up as an African-American in this world. She does not. – Ezra Dolezal	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Racism in Israeli football has become part of the culture. – Jibril Rajoub	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay, but my age -- anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What's the difference between that and racism or any discrimination? They're judging me by my age. I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around it. – Sarah Silverman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Boston University does not condone racism or bigotry in any form and we are deeply saddened when anyone makes such offensive statements. – Colin Riley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Black people across America still experience racism every day.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin, racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have to address race, but you can't address race only, you have to address class and the economic system. Even if you got rid of racism, the Southern economic model still exists. It's unchanged.

– Michael Lind

Found on CNN
8 years ago

America was built on the backs of racism.

– William Ray III

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

According to psychological and public health research, microaggressions can lead to negative health consequences including heart disease, diabetes,depressionand substance abuse, these statements may seem innocent, but…they underhandedly and subtly undermine the very real experiences with racism, sexism and other forms of oppression.

– Oi Yan Poon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

These statements may seem innocent, but…they underhandedly and subtly undermine the very real experiences with racism, sexism and other forms of oppression.

– Oi Yan Poon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows, to that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag in the U.S. finds ideological affinity with the old South African flag. Both flags show off past injustice and neither flag represents the idealism of breaking from divisive pasts in search of new, inclusive realities.

– Eusebius McKaiser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's disingenuous to have a discussion about racism and not point to the language of racism.

– Jabari Asim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He still has a ways to go in talking about racism and I had hoped he would be more assertive in his second term, he needs to address the idea that white people need to have a conversation about race among themselves. It's the silent majority of white people who benefit from privilege and that needs to be topic one.

– Jabari Asim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public, that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say n----- in public, that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I grew up when racism was just a way of life, i wouldn't have been surprised if it was somebody 60, 70 years old who had that much hate, but where does this hate come from?

– Mary Meynardie

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's time to step up by destroying racism. i'm trying to get over the shooting of Walter Scott and now we're getting hit with this hand grenade, this atomic bomb. How do you explain this to yourself? This was a racially motivated shooting. It wasn't a gas leak.

– Dearrick DeSaussure

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The reality that racism is alive and well and that we have a problem with guns.

– Clayborne Carson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I believe that the first most important thing regardless of what a person does is that they have integrity, rachel has done really good work fighting against racism and police brutality ... but she went about it the wrong way. She said I was born black. I grew up black and I know what it's like growing up as an African-American in this world. She does not.

– Ezra Dolezal

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Racism in Israeli football has become part of the culture.

– Jibril Rajoub

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay, but my age -- anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What's the difference between that and racism or any discrimination? They're judging me by my age. I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around it.

– Sarah Silverman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Boston University does not condone racism or bigotry in any form and we are deeply saddened when anyone makes such offensive statements.

– Colin Riley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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