Racism Quotes · Page 105

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

— Phil Scott

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

— P. T. Barnum

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

— Amiri Baraka

If you are that upset with it being used by people not of color, stop using it yourself.

— Anonymous

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any…

— Walter Cronkite

“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they…

— Alex Haley

A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with…

— James D. Watson

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had…

— Nathan Huggins

“They want to erase us. It's their divine mandate. They want to make us better, to improve us, by turning us into…

— R.F. Kuang

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming…

— Nelson A. Miles

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American…

— Glenn Ligon

The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…

— Ban Ki-moon

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least…

— John Stuart Mill

“In sum, reliance on cognitive characteristics beyond sentience to justify the use of nonhumans in experiments requires either that we assume that…

— Francione, Gary L

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American…

— Martin Luther King Jr

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral…

— Ayn Rand

“Human colour is the colour I'm truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the…

— Salena Godden

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I've been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces. Ah hell I even fuck with different races.

— Lil Kim

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

— Heather Mac Donald

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

“Is the fear that he is white or an athlete? Because what it comes down to is men will do what they…

— Toye Lawson Brown

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

— Eric Liu

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

— Steven Biko

For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”

— Sondra Perl

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

— Randall Robinson

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore