Racism Quotes · Page 149

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

— Tim Reid

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

— Anonymous

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy.…

— Bryan Stevenson

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste…

— Ibram X. Kendi

It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as…

— Lecrae

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of…

— Michelle Dean

I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games…

— Shelby Steele

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,…

— John Lewis

“You are not special. You're just fucking not. You're a bland, boring motherfucker just like everybody else. You ever been to the…

— T.J. Kirk

When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the…

— Crispin Glover

“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled…

— Bruce Dain

I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because…

— Killer Mike

“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its…

— Michelle Alexander

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white…

— Abraham Lincoln

News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in…

— Jello Biafra

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one…

— Suzy Kassem

“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.”

— Angie Thomas

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

— Ingrid Newkirk

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

— Sarah McBride

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

— Mellody Hobson

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

— Chris Crutcher

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

— Bo Burnham

People are like M&Ms we may be different different colours on the outside but on the inside we r all the same…

— Sarah Moores

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

— Gelindo Bordin

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

— Chris Gardner

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all…

— Jay-Z

“Having been made so much inferior to caucasians makes us to glorify yellow bones”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

— Michelle Alexander