Racism Quotes · Page 102

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

— John Stuart Mill

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

— Joey Skaggs

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

— Sarah Louise Delany

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

— William J. Brennan

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is…

— Assata Shakur

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

— Ezra Koenig

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than…

— Munira Mirza

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice…

— Hillary Clinton

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult…

— Peter Singer

“I’ve often reflected upon such black veteran numbers men as West Indian Archie. If they had lived in another kind of society,…

— Malcolm X

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings.…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and…

— Peter Dinklage

“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design,…

— Manning Marable

“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he…

— Michael Grant

I didn't understand that just because something wasn't about race for me, doesn't mean it's not about race for the other person…

— Stassi Schroeder

“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive…

— Stuart Hall

“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical…

— David Halberstam

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. If…

— Don Cornelius

In football, statistically, there's an under-representation from the BAME community in dugouts, boardrooms and coaching roles. The claim is that systemic racism…

— Simon Jordan

Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about…

— Martin Flanagan

It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be,…

— Bartolome de las Casas

Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them.

— Anonymous

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

— H. Rap Brown

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

— Assata Shakur

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

— Vera Caspary

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on…

— Michaela Coel

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided…

— Robin DiAngelo

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black…

— Margaret Cho

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

— Albert Einstein

I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.

— Sophie Okonedo

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war…

— Cornel West

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

— Kemi Badenoch

Black lives do matter. We cannot be afraid to say it, so I'll say it again: Black lives do matter.

— Ron Rivera

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

— Warren Farrell

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

— Ward Connerly

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

— Booker T. Washington