Racism Quotes · Page 121

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

— Anthea Butler

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in…

— Sean Hannity

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

— B. B. King

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free,…

— Muhammad Ali

All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.

— Katie Pavlich

On the history of black people in Britain, again, our history of race is not America's history of race.

— Kemi Badenoch

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and…

— Elijah Cummings

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply…

— Aberjhani

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury…

— Nellie L. McClung

We are all a little bit racist. White people, y'all are the first people to denounce it. I'm not racist. I'm incapable…

— Aries Spears

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment.…

— Paul Ryan

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of…

— David Olusoga

“Faggot, queer, fairy. Those words aren’t taught in a history course. You don’t learn them with the alphabet. Discrimination comes from the…

— Dan Skinner

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the…

— Magda Gerber

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“With time, the racism spread to more and more cultural arenas. American aesthetic culture was built around white standards of beauty. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think everyone should understand history of segregation the same way we had to go to school and read about George Washington.…

— Mary J. Blige

This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk…

— Una LaMarche

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

— Don Lemon

While racism does exist - and racism should be condemned - the demand for racists has far exceeded the supply.

— Will Cain

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

— James A. Baldwin

If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn…

— Steve Prefontaine

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

I hate the word rat race and always believe that competition happens when two opponents face each other or vie for the…

— Regina Cassandra

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius

You know, some people get really tense when you talk about racism or you talk about being Black and it shouldn't be…

— Judi Love

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

— Oliver Tambo

...we need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held...

— Samuel Ruiz

I have been called racist slurs and been treated differently because I am Asian American.

— Michelle Steel

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

— Ken Loach

Only black people act like dark skin & light skin are two different races..

— Christian Heggs

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

— Rachel Lloyd