Racism Quotes · Page 108

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

“The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

— J. Philippe Rushton

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

— Thomas Sowell

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at…

— John Edgar Wideman

When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical.

— David Olusoga

“I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any…

— M.B. Wilmot

Here's a thought, instead of taking the easy road under the guise of being politically correct and making hasty judgments about matters…

— Phaedra Parks

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The diffrence between a race and life is, in a race, your taught a lesson and given a chance, in life, your…

— Tamica Lane

When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message.…

— Opal Tometi

“By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal…

— Diane Ravitch

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

— Philip Freelon

“The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to…

— Trevor Noah

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent…

— Anonymous

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith…

— Anonymous

After George Floyd's murder, we had a conversation on our podcast where the underlying message was about being empathetic. We wanted people…

— Big E

“The Misery Merchants tell us, for example, that most blacks are poor. In fact, only one in four black families is poor,…

— Tammy Bruce

“It is not, I think, a question of when and how the white people will "free" the black and the red people.…

— Wendell Berry

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,…

— Van Jones

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

— Jacqueline Woodson

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

— Marine Le Pen

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

You know, I really don't have a specific race that I go towards or that I typically date.

— Rachel Lindsay

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

— Ben Domenech

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

— John Fowles

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

— Mike Norton

Attention Whores these days. -.- So much everywhere. Oh my gosh,It should be a race because theres allot of them. X''DDD

— Jasmine Laura

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

— Fredric Wertham

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

— Samuel Johnson

“Because race is different. Racism is different. It’s fraught, and it’s hard to discuss, and so as a result we often don’t.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Let’s be honest about the fact that many of us from all races are racist. . . . We’ve lied about progress.”132”

— Jared Taylor

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

— Yvette Clarke

Of course, there are races that have been boring but overall it's been really good so I'm not complaining.

— Valtteri Bottas

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

— Rush

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

— Phyllis Bennis