Racism Quotes · Page 136

“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were…

— Alex Lamb

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

— Gordon Parks

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

— Roger Ebert

“WHITE NATIONALISTS & BLACK LIVES MATTER: The harder you swing the pendulum one way, the more violently it will swing back.”

— A.E. Samaan

I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.

— Reggie Jackson

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

— Strom Thurmond

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

— Shirley Chisholm

“I am not out to destroy all the white race — only a small part of it: myself.”

— Charles Bukowski

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the…

— Malcolm X

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone…

— Sandra Bullock

Early on in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Republicans were confronted almost daily with a clear choice: accept Trump's overt appeals to the…

— S.E. Cupp

I focused on jobs. I built private sector jobs all my life. That's what the race was about. Who was going to…

— Rick Scott

There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around…

— Gareth Southgate

Patriotism can only flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot…

— Johannes Rau

I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting…

— Jeff Sessions

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations…

— David Hume

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a…

— Robin DiAngelo

Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism…

— Angela Davis

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government…

— John F. Kennedy

With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're…

— Patrisse Cullors

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other,…

— James Baldwin

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

— Jamaal Bowman

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

— bell hooks

“Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status”

— Roxane Gay

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

— Adam McKay

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

— Cornel West

“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

— Abigail Washburn

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

— John F. Kerry

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

— Anonymous

We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of…

— Alicia Garza

“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.”

— Aaron Hartzler

“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.”

— Jean Tirole

The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“We need to perceive ourselves as the special race. If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.”

— Toba Beta

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

— Rza