Racism Quotes · Page 145

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

— Rachel Dolezal

“Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.”

— Bryant McGill

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

— Ruby Bridges

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

— P. Chidambaram

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

— Ron Paul

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

— Roger Ross Williams

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American…

— George H. W. Bush

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those…

— DeRay Mckesson

Racism in the stadiums must be defeated, but to succeed, even before the laws of sport, those of the State will be…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their…

— Rosa Parks

As a society we have a duty to remove representations of dishonor that represent the hateful ideologies of bigotry and invidious discrimination.

— Al N. Green

It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to…

— Bocafloja

The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they…

— Ana Castillo

Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody…

— Deborah Rhode

“I confront the question of whether DEI initiatives are divisive and ineffective. The answer is yes on both counts, but not for…

— Louis Yako

If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we…

— Simon Tam

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or…

— Carter G. Woodson

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…

— Howard Zinn

Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have…

— Kandyse McClure

“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that…

— William Butler Yeats

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.”

— Whitney Otto

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

— Christopher McDougall

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

— Sam Esmail

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

— Manning Marable

“Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

— Hilton Als

“The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.”

— Robert Jacoby

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

— Michael Yates

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

— George Gilder

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

— Sarah Silverman

There's much more venality in the world than there is racism in the world, I find. If it makes money, they'll be…

— Paterson Joseph

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X