Quotes About Systemic Racism

#1. The crisis created by an inability to distinguish the Bible on race from the Bible on slavery meant that when the Civil War was over and slavery was abolished, systemic racism continued unchecked as the great moral anomaly in a supposedly Christian America.

Mark A. Noll

#2. We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

Hillary Clinton

#3. I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

Bill Forsyth

#4. White people covered the earth like lice.

Louise Erdrich

#5. Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Jessica Valenti

#6. The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

Pope John Paul II

#7. At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

Carl Sagan

#8. Her loss is my gain!

G.E. Kelly

#9. Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Robert Guillaume

#10. I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

Natalie Martinez

#11. Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Jennifer Crusie

#12. An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?

William McFee

#13. Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Simon S. Tam

#14. Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

James Frey

#15. For every sacrifice, there's a reward.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Al Sharpton

#17. Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Tim Wise

#18. You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

Rod Stewart

#19. Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

#20. I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

John Petrucci

#21. It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

George Eliot

#22. Politicians never keep all their promises.

Michael Moore