At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted. — Doctavius Copy Share Image
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration — Bob Herbert Copy Share Image
It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me,… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems… — Dwane Casey Copy Share Image
“This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism:… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“I noticed that a woman on Goodreads said something like, “I was reading along in the beginning thinking, okay, a woman wrote… — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody. — Caster Semenya Copy Share Image
In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom. — Laurence Stallings Copy Share Image
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself.… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content. — Smohalla Copy Share Image
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image