Racism Quotes · Page 137

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

— Ban Ki-moon

“Jordan had seen many black people in his lifetime, but none as black as this.”

— Paul Moxham

When are you gonna give Martin Luther King his car back? -Roman Pearce

— Fast Five

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

— Chance The Rapper

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

— Tim Wise

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

— Jonathan Swift

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

— Andrew Breitbart

What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class…

— Dahlia Lithwick

To me, race is the single most divisive factor affecting American society. It's an issue that we are afraid of, that we…

— Ron Stallworth

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and…

— Ralph Wiley

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which…

— Cynthia McKinney

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be…

— Tyra Banks

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it…

— Bob the Drag Queen

The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal -…

— Shelby Steele

The Proud Boys are over race. We don't talk about - we talk about race if you want to talk about it,…

— Gavin McInnes

“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people…

— Aaron B. Powell

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified…

— Henry A. Wallace

I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the…

— Tao Lin

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate…

— Henry Louis Gates

“It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of…

— Christian Lander

“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the…

— Howard Zinn

“In recent decades we have emphasized the value of teaching people 'tolerance.' Tolerance is not only inadequate, it is a negative concept…

— Arun Gandhi

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look…

— Vince Staples

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not…

— Clint Smith

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

— Whoopi Goldberg

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

— Steven Erikson

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

— Bobby Seale

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that…

— Halle Berry

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

— Suzanne de Passe

“It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.”

— peter adejimi

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

— Miles Davis

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

— Ruby Bridges

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

— Ruby Bridges

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

— Abraham Maslow

In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.

— Misha Green

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

— Barbra Streisand

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

— Hasan M. Elahi

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg