Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I do not like the Confederate flag. It excludes me, profoundly. And if many good people fought honorably to defend it, I still experience the sight of it as a little racial aggression against me.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid to persist, these divisions between black and white in wealth and income and so on, in the future you would indeed have an ugly upheaval.

We have to, as a progressive movement, organize climate justice and reproductive rights and racial justice. We've got to do this. We can't continue to organize in silos.

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

My identity is that of a Pakistani player. And nothing is more important than that for me.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen.

I think if we're going to be serious as a city, as a country, about addressing climate change, addressing inequality and racial disparities, we have to start taking action at the scale that matches the urgency of the problems.

If you care about social and racial justice, innovation, and humanity, become a teacher. There are amazing kids who have unlimited potential and ideas who need someone who cares about them and their learning.

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here, too. At least in America we're trying to deal with it.'

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.