Racism Quotes · Page 126

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

— Randall Robinson

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

— Gary Oldman

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore

Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted.

— Doctavius

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt…

— Anonymous

“Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is…

— Bernice Sandler

People wouldn't have to hide their true selves - there would be no lines, no walls built, no prejudices against where people…

— Innah Delos Angeles

We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates…

— Alicia Garza

“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to…

— Raquel Cepeda

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel…

— Chris Rock

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why…

— Sarah Lacy

Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I…

— Ayo Edebiri

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

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Tammy Bruce

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

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

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

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

— Major Taylor

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

— Jaylen Brown

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

— Bob Herbert

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

— Molly Ivins

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

— Caster Semenya

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

— Hasan Minhaj

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

— Laurence Stallings

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything…

— Celia Green

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

— Adwoa Aboah

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

— Phil Scott

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

— Robin DiAngelo

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt