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Margaret Cho
193 quotes
“I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy. (about North Korea)”
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“My association is so painfully close that avoidance is the only way I know to retain my identity. It's ridiculous and embarrassing. I hate feeling this way, because it forces me to see how deeply racism has affected me.”
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“Prejudice and bigotry rot me from within, and the strains of these viruses are hearty and hard to kill.”
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“I had always regarded the world of political humor as the exclusive domain of white men and immediately disqualified myself from participation. I know better now, its immensely pleasing when I'm referred to as a political comedian...”
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“Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it.”
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“The amount of racism, sexism, homophobia, and hatred in general that lies beneath the surface of the American dream is astounding and serious.”
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“People are surprised at the depth of resentment against Asian Americans, but it never shocks me. We are the object of hatred not only for the things we do but just being who we are, ching chong chinamen.”
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“There are still lynchings. And while we don't use ropes anymore, there are more efficient ways of doing it.”
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“The majority should not be allowed to rule simply because its the majority. The majority is responsible for slavery, segregation, lynching, denying women and minorities the vote, Japanese internment and a million other injustices and inhumanities.”
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“Then there are the laws against homosexuality. Then there is the Asian exclusion act. Then there the internment of Japanese Americans. I'm not even going to talk about Guantanamo. And then there is the first American hate crime: taking this land from the Native Americans. We can keep it up forever. Hate Crime Trivial Pursuit. There are more than enough hate crimes to play a decent round.”
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“What is deeply distressing is the incredible number of people who are vehemently opposed to equality, and the need for them to deny gay rights simply because they cannot bear the thought of gays having rights.”
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“Because even though there is all this talk about multiculturalism in television and the movie industries, I have yet to see any evidence of it.”
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“I actually adore that kind of hate mail, because if all you have to fight me with is prejudice then I have already won the battle, and eventually I'm gonna win this war. I wrote about hate mail on my website, and posted all that I had received, along with the names and e-mail addresses of the guilty...(this) actually prompted an incredible number of the haters to recant and apologize.”
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“Whenever you hear the words chink, nigger, beaner, paki, sissy, bull dyke, faggot, cunt, bitch, ho, jap...because through no fault of your own, you happen to be you, and apparently to the person saying it something is wrong with that.”
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“We have allowed alarmist and racist attitudes to take us hostage, and if these impulses are not kept in check they will behead us all.”
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“Having to remind others of your American status, fear of being connected to the enemy because of ancestral ties, the threat so prevalent that it makes you put not one but two giant flags outside is not right.”
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“We are the scavenger minority, picking at the carcass of civil rights, trying to get our measly share, so very far from the idea of fair...but what do you expect? We are the bottom-feeders of a multicultural fishtank, we get pushed to the back of the bus by more vocal minorities that have been there and don't want to return.”
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“Whenever I get hate mail, the verbal assault is always racial.”
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“We don't have the luxury of our own privatized civil rights movements because the crimes - the ignorance, the rage, the hate against the who/what/why of some of us, is a much much larger foe. Together we are more than the sum of our parts. In union, in communion, in joining hands, we conquer all, because we have love on our side.”
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“Racism is a cancer that is unstoppable if left unchecked.”
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“Our nation bringing slaves from Africa was the biggest hate crime of all. Then, when the slaves were freed, there wasn't anywhere for them to go. Then came the reign of terror by the KKK that never really ended. Then there is the fact that none of this stuff is taught in American History, at least not in detail.”
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“I stamp my feet and claim ignorance like a child, because its the color of my skin that says I'm supposed to know. I become the "one who refuses to see the self".”
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“What is needed now is action, not hopelessness”
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“We are a nation divided which is obvious. The problem is, the division is keeping this monarchy in place.”
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“We are supposed to be ruled by ourselves, but I have yet to see any evidence of it in our lifetime.”
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh directly coincides with our ability to fight. If we make fun of it, we can transcend it.”
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“Although it might be that we can't expect change overnight, there was really a rapid shift in the way we view politics.”
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“These new ways of looking at ourselves politically redefine what it means to be American. It took our until now, very passive identity and turned us all into revolutionaries.”
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“We are more aware and politicized than ever before. There is very little ambiguity as to which side you are on.”
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“Yet the powers that be haven't quite considered the strength of our sheer numbers.”
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“Ultimately a government cannot defeat its people, no matter how much power they assume or how corrupt they are. For us, there is only opportunity.”
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“The people I choose to admire are not necessarily popular, not necessarily terribly well known, but they each have something to offer me, a lesson, a cautionary tale, an idea, an inspiration.”
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“Might does not equal right...fortunately, the majority holds power by a very small margin. There are certain things the majority has no right to mess with, certain things that are definitely worth fighting for--worth defending and worth offending.”
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“We have a date to rumble with stupidity, ignorance, prejudice, laziness, hatred, and greed.”
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“I am fighting when I'm sleeping. In my dreams, I must slay the dragon of European heterosexual male society, then I wake up in the morning and be an activist.”
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“I have to watch the news and movies about the people who I am not, then translate my struggle in order to make it palatable for those people who don't have to march but are sympathetic to my voice.”
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“I try every day to challenge myself further, and I believe in doing this I slay the monster (within) bit by bit. That's why being political is an essential part of my life. In the end, its all I have.”
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“We are no longer afraid to voice our opinions, to use our power, to pool our resources, to allow our differences to unite us instead of keeping us apart.”
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“Just as we pull up to this place...I notice two very large American flags...It's as if there was a need to emphasize the Americanness of this place. "We are American" says the first flag. "No we really are!" says the second. It struck me as enormously sad, somehow awkward and tragic.”
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“I love America. I'm not moving. It's cool. I just don't like seeing dead people.”
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“We have no idea what our nation is doing in our name. I don't want to be anyone's captor, anyone's torturer.”
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“I feel 100% responsible, even though there's nothing I could do to prevent it. What good is my guilt if it's not felt by those supposedly in charge?”
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“Its unacceptable to me, both as an American and as a human being.”
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“We justify those atrocities because, well, they're doing their best for their country, but then again, that exactly what the hooded executioners...”
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“My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs”
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“Stop the fantasy we need to be defending freedom, because we don't have freedom in our own country yet.”
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“They (the government) are unfazed by any amount of travesty, loss, tragedy, death, and destruction.”
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“Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?”
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“It was not our right to have become the world's bully and start this war in the first place.”
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“Of course, we're there because of weapons of mass destruction that do not exist.”
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