Racism Quotes · Page 140

Donald Trump's legacy is not simply speckled with incidents of racism; it itself is racist.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

— William O. Douglas

“Race, john powell says, is like gravity, experienced by all, understood by few.”

— Krista Tippett

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

— Walter Lang

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

— Bill Maher

Don't judge my character or assume anything about me. If you don't want to shake my hand and get to know me.

— Sabs Kridrec

It's a pity that racist issues come out. There are ways of criticising without getting into that.

— Joao Felix

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

— Jesse Jackson

Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way…

— Kreayshawn

Racism and bigotry should never fuel any administration's policies. Calls to send anyone 'back' contradict who we should be as a country…

— Deb Haaland

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it…

— Harold Nicholas

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having…

— Gretchen Whitmer

I fully feel like racism, homophobia, and transphobia are all rooted in classism. If you don't know what it was like to…

— Ethel Cain

For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular…

— Robin DiAngelo

“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to…

— Nicholas Wade

Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not…

— Michael Jordan

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender,…

— Rachel Dolezal

I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do…

— Malcolm X

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite…

— Julian Bond

“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By…

— Anonymous

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be…

— Don Cheadle

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing…

— John Piper

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

— Sung Kang

“I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.”

— Pat Conroy

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

— Walter E. Williams

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

— Tony Evans

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

— Paloma Elsesser

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

— Charles Bradlaugh

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

— Ann Radcliffe

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

— Toni Morrison

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mr. Luther King had a dream. Dreams are where Elmo and Toy Story had a party, and I went there. Yay, my…

— Ralph Wiggum

There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

— Michelle Alexander

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the…

— Daryl Davis

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

— Adam Fletcher

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi