Albert Memmi Quotes

• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

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  Hands, Racism, Psychology

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

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  Understanding, Half, Colonization

  Albert Memmi (2013). “The Colonizer and the Colonized”, p.12, Routledge

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• Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown
  “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

  Albert Memmi

  Color, Racism, Kind

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