Racism Quotes · Page 133

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

— Stokely Carmichael

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

— Pope Francis

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

American racism seems to be a lot more in the open. The U.K. is different but it obviously still exists.

— Kano

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

— Will Self

“The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.”

— Agatha Christie

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

— Peggy McIntosh

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make…

— Adrian Tomine

Does racism exist in this country? Sure. But I think the overwhelming majority of Americans who care about this country do not…

— Ryan Frazier

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us.…

— Clara Fraser

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No…

— Colin Flaherty

It is imperative that we address the barriers to access and the systemic racism that we know is contributing to our astronomically…

— Leana S. Wen

While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support…

— Virginia Uribe

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than…

— Malcolm X

“I'm not white, no, but I'm just close enough that I could be, and just far enough that you know I'm not.…

— Scaachi Koul

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils…

— Nikesh Shukla

This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these…

— Adolf Hitler

“Most black folk get the moral intent of black prophecy and believe that they and their divine mouthpieces have a God-given right…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Donald Trump consciously stokes racist sentiment, and has given a rocket boost to the ‘alt-right’ fringe of neo-Nazis and white nationalists. But…

— Edward Luce

I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist…

— Mary Beard

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we…

— Donna Brazile

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

— Samuel Johnson

White people must speak out against black racism, no matter where it rears its ugly head.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

— Jacob Weisberg

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

— Patrisse Cullors

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

— Beah Richards

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

— Jacob Needleman

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

— Elie Wiesel

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

— James Cromwell

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

— Michael Yates

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

— James Weldon Johnson

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

— Lamman Rucker

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

— Amala Akkineni

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

— Bubba Wallace