Racism Quotes · Page 141

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

— Marcus Smart

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

— Logan Browning

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person...

— Barack Obama

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

— Coretta Scott King

We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.

— Geert Wilders

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

— Eddie Griffin

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I…

— Octavia E. Butler

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

— Shirley Chisholm

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.…

— Bela Lugosi

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until…

— John Barnes

For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will…

— Naomi Klein

“The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could…

— Bryant McGill

“Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Activists who aren't 'straight, white and Christian' have pushed back against bigotry for many generations, and they have secured hard-won advances.

— Jonathan Capehart

“Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation.…

— M.B. Wilmot

With the passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, we are sending a loud and clear message - we must reject all…

— Alex Padilla

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment.…

— Eric Holder

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of…

— Bruce Babbitt

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and…

— Roger Ebert

“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that…

— Clint Smith

People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our…

— Kanye West

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That…

— Rowan Atkinson

I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women…

— Carolyn Maloney

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take…

— Thurgood Marshall

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

— Michael Crichton

“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”

— Adlai Stevenson

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist,

— John Rocker

“When they are beyond the reach of the law, Americans revert to the patterns of segregation the law forbids. Why is this?”

— Jared Taylor

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

— Walter Lang

All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

— Kate Sheppard

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

— Tony Evans

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

— Lynn Swann

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country…

— Fred Hampton

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

— Lexi Alexander

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

— Cary Kennedy

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

— Rachel Dolezal