Racism Quotes · Page 100

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

— Ruth Benedict

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

— Ron Stallworth

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

— Benjamin Zander

“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.

— Candace Owens

He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

— Katt Williams

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

— Malcolm X

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but…

— Malcolm X

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of…

— Terre Thaemlitz

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here,…

— Paula Kelly

You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something…

— Edgar Davids

I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more…

— Isaiah Washington

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of…

— Robert Breault

Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no…

— Ward Connerly

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and…

— Orlando Jones

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.…

— Malcolm X

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that…

— Yance Ford

I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Despite the superficial similarities created by global technology, the dynamics of peer-orientation are more likely to promote division rather than a healthy…

— Gabor Maté

Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and…

— Wesley Morris

“These studies are about a lot more than foul calls and strikeouts. They’re about the nature of racism today: subtle, pervasive, persistent.…

— Jeremy A. Smith

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn…

— Marcus Garvey

The Ahmaud Arbery video was the final straw for me in being silent. That shook me to the core like nothing has…

— Bubba Wallace

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

— Malachi Kirby

“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”

— William A. Henry III

The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

— McGeorge Bundy

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

— Sara Gideon

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

— Mike Jackson

“So, I have to know," he says, "what are you?" But just because he has to know doesn't mean I have to…

— Marilyn Hilton

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

— Tim Hardaway

There's got to be a zero tolerance to racism, anti-Semitism, any form of division and intolerance.

— Erin O'Toole

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

— Arthur Ashe

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

— Ludwig von Mises

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.

— Pramila Jayapal

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as…

— Ruth Ware

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

— Michael Moore

“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.

— Tabu

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism…

— Henry Louis Gates