Occupation: Schoolteacher Birth: May 27, 1933
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables —….
To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor..
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you….
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned.
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to p….
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism..
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right….
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience..
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power..
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because ….
I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!.
You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose ….
450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hund….
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rom….
We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that ….
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pe….
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t….
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the iss….
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that ….
I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to g….
Age is how we determine how valuable you are..