Racism Quotes · Page 129

“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

— Michael Pfleger

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

— J. Philippe Rushton

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

— Bobby Seale

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

— Ephraim Mirvis

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a…

— Ashton Sanders

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.

— Jacky Rosen

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a…

— Maya Angelou

We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure…

— Malala Yousafzai

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

— Christopher Lasch

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is…

— Jonathan Coleman

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people…

— Daniel Barenboim

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep…

— Morgan Freeman

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that…

— Gloria Steinem

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.…

— Philip K. Dick

In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism:…

— Anthea Butler

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore…

— John Stuart Mill

“I noticed that a woman on Goodreads said something like, “I was reading along in the beginning thinking, okay, a woman wrote…

— Barbara Browning

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

— Nargis Fakhri

“Human Skin Colors Were Made For Identifications, Not For Discriminations...”

— Pedro Acevedo

Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.

— Daryl Davis

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

— Anthony Mackie

Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.

— Ellen Ullman

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

— Melissa Farley

I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn't train with someone who's gay.

— Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

— Michael Jackson

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

— Aasif Mandvi

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

— Celia Green

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

— Pindar

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

— Oprah Winfrey

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

— Dean Koontz

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

— Laurence Overmire

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson