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We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.
- John Barnes
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When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they're fine.
- John Barnes
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From the perspective of what happened with Celtic people might argue that I didn't have the experience for another big job but I don't think my experience with Celtic explains why I couldn't get a job in the fourth division.
- John Barnes
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My mother made me believe in reincarnation, in karma. If I live a good life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a higher being. If I live a bad life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a lower being.
- John Barnes
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New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.
- John Barnes
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My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen's Christmas speech.
- John Barnes
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The fight against racial bias in society will not be won by hounding Liam Neeson or boycotting his films. It will be won by allowing honest discussions about why people hold biased views and exposing the flawed logic behind them.
- John Barnes
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I felt I had to take the Celtic opportunity. You quickly learn that any managerial vacancy attracts up to 60 or 70 applicants, so you need a good reason to turn a job down. A start is a start.
- John Barnes
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I've never bought a pint of milk in my life.
- John Barnes
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Football is a socialist sport. Financially, some may receive more rewards than others but, from a footballing perspective, for 90 minutes, regardless of whether you are Lionel Messi or the substitute right-back for Argentina, you are all working to the same end.
- John Barnes
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I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.
- John Barnes
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Just passing laws saying you are not allowed to be racist won't work. You need an educational system in place.
- John Barnes
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#Place
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For a team like Brighton, just being in the Premier League is important. That is the name of the game.
- John Barnes
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History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, 'He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn't feel any pain. He doesn't need to be educated.'
- John Barnes
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I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.
- John Barnes
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I used to go to the school plays my kids were in, and who were the angels at Christmas time? The blonde, blue-eyed girls. Who was Mary? And the shepherds were all the black and Indian kids in the background.
- John Barnes
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#Blonde
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#School
#Time
We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.
- John Barnes
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There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.
- John Barnes
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Mass migration and the refugee crisis is one of the biggest problems facing the world. In this country we assume that everyone just wants to come to the U.K. - but it's an issue in Germany, Greece, Sweden, all across the E.U. Why should we be the first to turn our backs on the problem?
- John Barnes
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#Migration
#Problems
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My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it was based. After Sandhurst, he returned to the Caribbean as a junior lieutenant, based in Jamaica. He met my mum and became a Jamaican citizen.
- John Barnes
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#He
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Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.
- John Barnes
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#Sexism
#Society
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