Racism Quotes · Page 152

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

— Al Sharpton

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

— George Wallace

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

— Nate Parker

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

— Dov Davidoff

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

The biggest problem throughout the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly

— Erik Hansen

In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves…

— Boosie

Normally, 'black responsibility' is a forbidden phrase for a black leader -- not because blacks reject responsibility, but because even the idea…

— Shelby Steele

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal…

— Thomas Sowell

In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely…

— Vivek Shraya

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating…

— Rebecca West

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She…

— Jim Costa

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all…

— Henry Louis Gates

There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn…

— Walter F. Mondale

For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or…

— Maya Moore

In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think…

— Salim Akil

“In the 60s, political correctness became not a guideline for living, but a new set of shackles. A small and vocal part…

— Audre Lorde

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Just when you thought change had happened, that acceptance and equal rights were the norm, a throwaway comment, or unguarded phrase revealed…

— Lisa Hartley

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is…

— Bell Hooks

“You can never really, truly, understand discrimination unless you've been fuckin' ugly. Ugly people face as much, or more, discrimination than any…

— Doug Stanhope

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

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

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

— Naomi Alderman

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

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 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