Racism Quotes · Page 115

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

— Jess Row

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

— Bob Beckel

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

— Malcolm X

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

We should see ourself as a panda, Their white their black and also their asian.

— Axel

You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you…

— LeCrae

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big…

— Hugo Chavez

Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why…

— James Meredith

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're…

— Barack Obama

I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color…

— Michael Nutter

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither…

— Sarah Churchwell

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you…

— Dan Rather

“Faced with public discontent about the statist agenda, the Condescendi look out the window at the unlovely mob in their "Don't treat…

— Mark Steyn

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be…

— James Baldwin

“White people must be seen, not heard (Sonnet 2913) In matters of human rights, white people must be seen, not heard; In…

— Abhijit Naskar

“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start…

— Abhijit Naskar

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of…

— Heather Mac Donald

“As a black man Al, who went through the Civil rights fight in the 60s just like you did, and saw the…

— Ken Hutcherson

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of…

— Urvashi Vaid

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed…

— John Brunner

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

— Mary Hays

Of course some people who oppose mass migration are racists, but then so are some of the people who support it.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

— John Prendergast

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

— Phil Gramm

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

— Ida B. Wells

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who…

— Muhammad Ali

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

— Margaret Cho

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

— Cornel West

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.”

— Voltaire

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

— Blanka Vlasic

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

— Jerry West

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

— Gish Jen

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

— Rachel Dolezal