Racism Quotes · Page 151

I said a racist word and I can fully understand why people would label me a racist.

— Kyle Larson

African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

— Opal Tometi

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was…

— Shia LaBeouf

The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.

— Moses Hess

“If skin color offends you than I hope my words run through your veins as a plague to ignorance.”

— Zachary Koukol

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

— Niki Ashton

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good…

— Angela Rye

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

— Tim Wise

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“There will be always be people stronger and not as strong, smarter, and not quite as smart. It's best not to get…

— Tricia McCallum

“I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to…

— James Baldwin

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Whenever I do complain about things, you hear people say, 'you're on this money, so get on with it.' I give up…

— Danny Rose

If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and…

— Kathleen Hanna

I grew up in a household where we talked about race all the time, and that's sort of in me. So if…

— W. Kamau Bell

“It has been said that the Negroes do not connect morals with religion. The historian would like to know what race or…

— Carter G. Woodson

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in…

— Bill Ayers

We are invested in being together. In having friends. In joining our lives. And yet these are the people who also fail…

— Claudia Rankine

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're…

— Kevin michael

“• They travel in tight circles of likeminded people. • Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them…

— John W. Dean

“Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the…

— O.Z. Livaneli

“Even when I encountered racism outside Salmon Creek, it usually rolled off me. The worst of it often came from rednecks whipping…

— Kelley Armstrong

We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as…

— Tupac Shakur

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of…

— Thabo Mbeki

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

— Mark Foster

I know the ugly face of racism. I lived racism. I have experienced racism. And I survived racism.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

— Geronimo

There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage.

— Justin Simien

“White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender…

— Kehinde Wiley

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

— Gordon Parks

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing…

— Sonia Sanchez

“1. The Amazing Race 2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans 3. Oh. (Joe O'Neill, from Opium)”

— Dave Eggers

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

— Gordon W. Allport

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

— Bernard Goldberg

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

— Richard M. Weaver

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

— Steve Earle

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

— Bill Moyers

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X