Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Dave Zirin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Dave Zirin.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin, born 1974, is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dave Zirin. As of January 2022, he has authored eleven books.

This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.
Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy. — © Dave Zirin
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.
Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
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