Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
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Related As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and in... AL SHARPTON Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and i... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appre... GAIL SHEEHY Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party... MILTON FRIEDMAN Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one par... MILTON FRIEDMAN War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men. NAPOLEON HILL War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. NAPOLEON HILL He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. PLAUTUS You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lastin... ANTHONY EDEN By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because ge... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,... ROSA PARKS Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America's No. 1 issue. A Time/CNN poll found 89 p... LARRY ELDER You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use... DAVID P. BRYDEN Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial ... ANDREW LO When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black wom... BOB BECKEL You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us MARC BEKOFF Keep in touch with the people who have something to gain rather than those who have nothing to lose. VIKRANT PARSAI The one who gain advantage by destroying others will never find true happiness and success! BRADLEY B. DALINA We found that kindergarten girls from food-insecure families tend to gain more weight than other gir... EDWARD FRONGILLO Clearly, everyone is looking for some way to gain a competitive advantage. FRANK MAISANO Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schoo... BOB BECKEL Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-cen... ALVEDA KING This kind of thing it just gives us a bad name, frightens people from investing it may make one o... FEREIDUN FESHARAKI Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. TAI SHANG KAN YING P'IEN To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth
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the violence and theft of the Sharon regime a... POLLIE SILABIC He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. H... LAO-TSE The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remem... JACKIE ROBINSON Love doesn't always show us the sad and the sorrowful part of it, it only shows us the happy circle ... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It is a way for us to recognize the heroic actions not only for those who died, but for those who st... JOSEPH CROWLEY They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow, LUIS GUTIERREZ Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of... E. M. FORSTER We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others. SETH GRAHAME-SMITH In some things, the body really does have a mind of its own, and weight is one of those things. Some... MELINDA JOHNSON Racism is sin itself.
Trump didn't cause the racism in men's hearts, sin did.
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