The same shacks. The same lack of basic services. The same diseases. ibid.
Almost one third of Aboriginal people are dead before the age of 45. ibid. caption
Aboriginal people were not counted in the Census unlike the sheep. A school textbook explained why: ‘We are civilised, and they are not’. ibid.
A genocidal history that’s barely recognised in white Australia. ibid.
Today, black Australians are among the most imprisoned people on earth. ibid. caption
Rape and sexual exploitation were used by whites against black women and children. ibid.
All over Australia black children are being taken from their homes. ibid.
It’s quite useless to treat the Aborigines fairly because they are completely amoral, and incapable of sincere and prolonged gratitude. Stephen Roberts, historian, school textbook until early ’70s
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. 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 on 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. Gloria Steinem
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. Abraham Lincoln, 1858 debate
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln marked the beginning of a disastrous political process that led Americans to reject the appeals for racial equality that had emerged from the radicalism of the Civil War. During the century between emancipation in the 1860s and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s African Americans were pushed into segregated lives, defined by the so-called Jim Crow laws. And lynching. Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner? BBC 2011
I would rather sit with the rural poor, the desperate children of urban blight, the victims of racism, and working people seeking a better life than with those whose religion is the status quo, whose goal is profit and whose hearts are cold. Douglas Fraser
Anti-Semitism was preached as an official doctrine of the church until 1964. Do you think that might have something to do with public opinion in Austria and Bavaria and Poland and Lithuania – that the Jewish people were accused collectively of deicide? Christopher Hitchens, with Stephen Fry v the Catholic Church, debate 2009
And I’ll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl’s revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students’ Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I’m talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this – this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it’s probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you. Christopher Hitchens
The connection between religion, racism, and totalitarianism is also to be found in the other most hateful dictatorship of the twentieth century: the vile system of apartheid in South Africa. This was not just the ideology of a Dutch-speaking tribe bent on extorting forced labor from peoples of a different shade of pigmentation, it was also a form of Calvinism in practice. The Dutch Reformed Church preached a dogma that black and white were biblically forbidden to mix, let alone to coexist in terms of equality. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p251
I hear you’re a racist now, Father. Father Ted s3e1: Are You All Right There Father Ted? Coln, Channel 4 1998
The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people. The MacPherson Report: The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
Last year there were over 35,000 racial hate crimes recorded in England and Wales. Tonight: Stephen Lawrence – 20 Years On, ITV 2013
Not only did we play the race card, we played it from the bottom of the deck. Robert Shapiro, re O J Simpson trial, cited The Times 5th October 1995
It’s an election year, Chalky. The last thing we need is a race war. Boardwalk Empire s1e3: Broadway Limited, Nucky, HBO 2010
In south-central Los Angeles on April 29th 1992 one of the worst race riots erupted in American history. The trigger was the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King. Gangland s1e5: Race Wars, History 2007
Race-based violence had been a part of Los Angeles for almost a century. ibid.
The racist attitudes that divide Black and Hispanic gang members in prison often become ingrained in them before the time they return to the outside world. ibid.
They began as the most notorious prison gang in Texas. They grew out of a disturbing ideology. They are the ABT, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. They rule the streets too. Nowhere is safe. Gangland s4e7: Aryan Terror
A gang built on racial bigotry and violence. ibid.
The ABT developed a deep hatred for two black Texas prison gangs, the Mandingo Warriors and the Self Defence Family. ibid.
Drug profits help finance their brothers on the inside. ibid.
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of the most violent hate groups in America. This white supremacist gang operates a criminal network from behind their prison bars. Inside the Aryan Brotherhood
As the ABT makes money it also attracts new recruits. ibid.
Thompson is ready to make his move against the existing leadership of the ABT. ibid.
The highest percentage of their income comes from methamphetamine. ibid.
Those who don’t make it often join Texas’s second largest white prison gang – the Aryan Circle. ibid.
The white supremacist hate group has become a brand. ibid.
You wonder why one man’s born white and another isn’t. And how about God himself – what colour’s He? Pool of London 1951 starring Leslie Philips & James Robertson Justice & Earl Cameron & Bonar Colleano & Susan Shaw & Renee Asherson & Moira Lister & Max Adrian & Joan Dowling & Michael Golden & Alfie Bass et al, director Basil Dearden, Johnny
I too felt a brief surge of racial bigotry. Most distasteful. Star Trek s3e7: Day of the Dove, Spock
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1960
It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it’s not just Negroes, but really it’s all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.
And we shall overcome. Lyndon Baines Johnson: We Shall Overcome, Congress 15th March 1965
‘Out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice.’ Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States III: The Bomb, Ernie Pyle, war correspondent, Showtime 2012
This racism prevailed when President Roosevelt in February 1942 signed an executive order calling for the evacuation of over one hundred and ten thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans from California, Oregon and Washington. ibid.
Does this House think that it is right that men in a state of pure barbarism should have the vote? Treat the natives as a subject people. Be the lords over them. The native is to be treated as a child and denied the franchise. Cecil Rhodes, cited Empires: Queen Victoria’s Empire IV: The Scramble for Africa, PBS 2001
This wedding symbolises one of the truly great changes in British life. Once and it’s not so long ago such a relationship would leave you ostracised and officially condemned. George Alagiah, Mixed Britannia 1/3: 1910-1939, BBC 2011
Yet through it all mixed race communities have not only survived, they’ve flourished. ibid.
One in ten children in this country now lives in a mixed race family. ibid.