Read quote“For your own sakes, never appear ashamed that your father was a kaffir (Black man), and that you inherited African blood. It is every bit as good as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”
About Racism
Systems, beliefs, and experiences related to racial hierarchy, prejudice, and oppression.
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Words on Racism
Read quote“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.”
Read quote“South Africa was a strange place. Everyone was totally oblivious to the need to express the plight of the black people.”
Read quote“There can be no return to apartheid.”
Read quote“I suppose I must call myself a slave for I am the colour of those of whom you made slaves.”
Read quote“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””
Read quote“I think the history of race is deeply embedded in the DNA of our country.”
Read quote“There is a deep lesson for the world in the black races’ capacity to forgive.”
Read quote“Il ne manque aux nègres qu’un chef assez courageux, pour les conduire à la vengeance & au carnage.”
Read quote““Scram from Africa.””
Read quote“The first representations of Africans were made by others. So my cinema consists of trying to break down this false image.”
Read quote“victory for apartheid”
Read quote“For your own sakes never appear ashamed that your father was a “Kaffir” and that you inherit some African blood. It is every whit as good and as pure as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”
Read quote“Does she not understand that apartheid is the root of violence, that violence is being committed in the name of apartheid?”
Read quote“White leadership is therefore a myth and a heritage of impoverishment.”
Read quote“Unfortunately, apartheid has not gone, apartheid has simply reinforced itself in a different form today, and so Independent Media for me, was an important vehicle to continue to tell the story.”
Read quote“O homem que pretendíamos homenagear — apesar de ser de cor preta — é digno dessa e das maiores honrarias.”
Read quote“Orang Barat datang ke mari, dengan pengetahuan dan perasaan, bahwa ialah yang dipertuan bagi orang di sini.”
Read quote“There are very few things more harmful for Christian cooperation than the weaponization of the gospel against Black and brown cries for justice.”
Read quote“The “racial contract” ... can be thought of as an in-group agreement among the privileged to restrict moral and political equality to themselves.”
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