Racism Quotes

Che Guevara was a racist.

— Marco Rubio

Segregation is not exclusion.

— Ayelet Shaked

“Embrace the human race”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Don't call me a racist.

— Amber Rudd

There's racism everywhere.

— Denzel Washington

“Disgusting Serbs, get out!”

— Madeleine Albright

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

— Heraclitus

Life's a journey NOT a race

— Anonymous

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

— Taylor Caldwell

“The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.”

— Saul Bellow

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

— Justin Simien

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

— Robert Barron

“The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.”

— Garth Stein

Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination.

— Mike Pence

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

— Joy Behar

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

— Jim Clyburn

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

— Shirley Chisholm

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I…

— Octavia E. Butler

We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.

— Geert Wilders

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

— Eddie Griffin

“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”

— Adlai Stevenson

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

— Michael Crichton

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves—it’s all…

— Harper Lee

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is…

— Harper Lee

I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or…

— Eva Mendes

We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race,…

— Michael Emerson

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do…

— Alicia Machado

The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a…

— Alicia Garza

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

“Understanding America for the Non-American Black: Thoughts on the Special White Friend One great gift for the Zipped-Up Negro is The White…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I…

— Muhammad Ali

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!…

— Elizabeth Keckley

I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's…

— Jeff Sessions

So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and…

— Cornel West

I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a…

— Benjamin Carson

“It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than…

— Konrad Lorenz

“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or…

— Douglas A. Blackmon