Racism Quotes · Page 122

My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?

— Larry Wilmore

The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things

— Anonymous

Mephobia- Fear of becoming so awesome that the human race cant handle it and everybody dies.

— Richie

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

— Joseph O'Connor

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with…

— Walter Dean Myers

To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that…

— Chuka Umunna

Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

— Bernie Sanders

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

— Sarah Louise Delany

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound…

— Michael Moore

We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume…

— Charlie Kirk

Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals,…

— Robin DiAngelo

Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of…

— John Shelby Spong

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

— Harry S Truman

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have…

— Jim Goad

And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people…

— Regina King

I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so…

— Forest Whitaker

“Hitler divided humans into three categories based on physical appearance. He declared the Aryan race as biologically and culturally superior to other…

— Hourly History

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Oddly, I had never thought of myself as a feminist. I had been denounced by certain radical feminist collectives as a ‘lackey’…

— Elaine Brown

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call…

— Michael Emerson

“May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupying your mind-set needs to be…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“He was not safe. I wasn't angry, I was heartbroken. We couldn't talk about the ways in which race and racism impacted…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But…

— Cristina García

“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is…

— Assata Shakur

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

— William J. Brennan

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

— Ezra Koenig

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

— Assata Shakur

Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them.

— Anonymous

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

— H. Rap Brown

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

— Vera Caspary

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on…

— Michaela Coel

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided…

— Robin DiAngelo

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

— Albert Einstein

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black…

— Margaret Cho

I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.

— Sophie Okonedo

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

— Kemi Badenoch