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RADAR Project: Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism

Ignorance and prejudice are the


handmaidens of propaganda. Our
mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with
tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism
can, will, and must be defeated.

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to
continue to eat, wear, and use animal
products? Of course there are. But
in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic,
and ableist society, there are social
pressures to participate and engage
in sexism, racism, homophobia, and
ableism.

Kofi Annan

Gary L. Francione

Racist thought and action says far


more about the person they come
from than the person they are directed at.

Weve got to face the fact that some


people say you fight fire best with fire,
but we say you put fire out best with
water. We say you dont fight racism
with racism. Were gonna fight racism
with solidarity.

Chris Crutcher
Whale Talk

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I wish I could say that racism and


prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the
apathy. We must dissent from the
fear, the hatred and the mistrust

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Parents and schools should place
great emphasis on the idea that it is
all right to be different. Racism and
all the other isms grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility
against those of another tribe, race,
religion, nationality, class or whatever.
You are a lucky child if your parents
taught you to accept diversity.

Thurgood Marshall

Roger Ebert

Pit race against race, religion against


religion, prejudice against prejudice.
Divide and conquer! We must not let
that happen here.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully
human. Its a self-centered falsehood
that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we
would not want to be treated.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Alveda King

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Racism is mans gravest threat to man


- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism is taught in our society, it is


not automatic. It is learned behavior
toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Alex Haley

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective


judgments are wrong. Only racists
make them

Racism is a much more clandestine,


much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time its perhaps
far more terrible than its ever been.

Eliezer Wiesel

Angela Davis

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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most


graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos
rendered invisible in public discourse.

The worst moment in my life was when


I was seven years old and I discovered
that there was a thing such as racism.
You dont know youre different until
someone lets you know.

Cornel West

Sanjeev Bhaskar

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism,


it is a most peculiar variety, with many
unique characteristics. In my view as
a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different
category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the


beginning of the kind of hierarchical
behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all
the other isms that cause so much
suffering in the world.

Paul Johnson

Octavia E. Butler

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People sometimes hold themselves


back because they want to use racism
as an excuse for them not being able
to achieve what they want to achieve.

Racism is ignorant. And its stupid.


And its old. And its played out. So
beat it already with that, you know
what I mean? Lets all get along - Im
so tired of that damn sentence, but its
true.

Herman Cain

Queen Latifah

Racism oppresses its victims, but also


binds the oppressors, who sear their
consciences with more and more lies
until they become prisoners of those
lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the
horror of the injustices they commit.

Racism is an ism to which everyone


in the world today is exposed; for or
against, we must take sides. And the
history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Alveda King

Ruth Benedict

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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I dont
know any racism against the Eskimos.
To have a racist feeling, there must
be an other who is slightly different
from us - but is living close to us.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a
blind eye to them.

Umberto Eco

Cate Blanchett

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in
high school, so reverse racism was just
as apparent as racism.

We must confront our own racism.


Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than
institutionalised racism.

Shia LaBeouf

Tariq Ramadan

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People know about the Klan and the


overt racism, but the killing of ones
soul little by little, day after day, is a
lot worse than someone coming in
your house and lynching you.

The problem is that white people see


racism as conscious hate, when racism
is bigger than that. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. Yes, racism looks
like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is
another. Ignorance is another. Apathy
is another. And so on.

Samuel L. Jackson

Scott Woods

Most middle-class whites have no


idea what it feels like to be subjected
to police who are routinely suspicious,
rude, belligerent, and brutal.

We have made enormous progress in


teaching everyone that racism is bad.
Where we seem to have dropped the
ball is in teaching people what racism actually IS.

Benjamin Spock

Jon Stewart

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The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in
the streets. But they cant go into the
elegant apartments and get a stockbroker whos sniffing cocaine.

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The new racism: Racism without racists. Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies,
and institutions that are not explicitly
designed to discriminate. Contrary to
popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They
thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will.

Noam Chomsky

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor. If an elephant has its foot
on the tail of a mouse, and you say
that you are neutral, the mouse will
not appreciate your neutrality.

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots.
You feel like Well, I dont hate Black
people so Im not a racist, but you
benefit from racism.The opportunities that you have, youre privileged in
ways that you might not even realize
because you havent been deprived of
certain things.

Desmond Tutu

Dave Chappelle

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Until the philosophy which holds one


race superior and another inferior is
finally and permanently discredited
and abandoned everything is war.

Race is the great taboo in our society.


We are afraid to talk about it. White
folks fear their unspoken views will
be deemed racist. People of colour
are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence,
we are brothers and sisters drowning
each other.

Bob Marley

Eva Paterson

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too.
And if parents snicker at racial and
gender jokes, another generation will
pass on the poison adults still have
not had the courage to snuff out.

Many interviewers when they come


to talk to me, think theyre being progressive by not mentioning in their
stories any longer that Im black. I tell
them, Dont stop now. If I shot somebody youd mention it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Colin Powell

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and


all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - anti-humanism.

Charles Evan Hughes

Shirley Chisholm

Sex and race because they are easy


and visible differences have been the
primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups
and into the cheap labour in which
this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will
be no roles other than those chosen
or those earned. We are really talking
about humanism.

Violence as a way of achieving racial


justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction
for all. It is immoral because it seeks
to humiliate the opponent rather than
win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on
hatred rather than love.

Gloria Steinem

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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