Racism Quotes · Page 128

“As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.”

— Langston Hughes

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. —Jeffrey Arduan”

— Steve White

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

— Walter Annenberg

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

— Claudette Colvin

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

— Adam Hochschild

“When we come to see ourselves as "RACE." We act like a "RACE" and if not liberated, we perhaps, die like one.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.”

— Debby Irving

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the…

— Albert Speer

Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases…

— Sunny Hostin

I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this…

— Michelle Horst

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had…

— Donald Trump

“The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Anita Hill has changed the history of how we deal with each other in the workplace. But it also was an interesting…

— Rick Famuyiwa

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there…

— Carol Anderson

“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in…

— Junius Williams

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the…

— Cornel West

We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that…

— Chris Rock

A human haz no religion...belongz to no race..n iz beyond da limitaitonz of gender...A human iz one that feelz pain in a…

— Anonymous

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.…

— Anonymous

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am…

— Maysoon Zayid

“ethnic groups, but to say that we don’t divide each other into races would be to ignore thousands of years of human…

— C.H. Dalton

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

— Ann Coulter

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of…

— Marcus Garvey

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

— Gordon Allport

We must not be cowed by the terror unleashed by White men drowning in the deep end of racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

— Jonathan Capehart

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to…

— Mary Church Terrell

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

— Phillip Lopate

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.

— Letitia James

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

— John Barnes

Hating someone because of their skin color is ridiculous. I, for one, hate everybody. No discrimination here!

— Anonymous

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

— Laurence Fishburne

In this race doomed to fail, we are worlds apart. In this system you support, we are worlds apart. In my soul,…

— Hatebreed

“In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Rapid pace rat race, the human race in your face, tactless people without grace, the planet earth's a ruined place.

— Steve Fowler