Racism Quotes · Page 109

I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

— Zach Braff

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism…

— Roy Innis

If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice, they would never get help.

— Dana Loesch

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

— Matt Taibbi

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

— Ronny Chieng

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

— Martin O'Malley

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

— Niki Lauda

Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.

— Donald Trump

Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in…

— Chip Berlet

As a white person living your life, everything is built for and normalised for you - you have a free pass to…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We…

— DeRay Mckesson

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

“People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold…

— Arin Murphy-Hiscock

I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces…

— Kerry James Marshall

I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's…

— Sara Paretsky

As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were…

— Alice Schwarzer

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races,…

— James Fox

“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”…

— GaryLFrancione

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,…

— Audre Lorde

“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among…

— Opal Tometi

“Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

— Mona Eltahawy

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

— Reza Aslan

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

— Tom Metzger

“You can marry outside of your race, but never marry outside of your values.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

— Margaret Mitchell

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started…

— Mario Balotelli

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

— Patrisse Cullors

“People see what they expect to see,” he says sharply. “Through a filter of their own hatred and prejudice.”

— Laurie Forest

“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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Arthur Ashe

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

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

— Tabu