Racism Quotes · Page 155

I think deep down my brother or my dad wouldn't like me to race but it's what I love, it's what I…

— Nicolas Hamilton

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

— Constance Baker Motley

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

— Valerie Jarrett

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know,…

— Big Daddy Kane

“Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.”

— Victoria E. Bynum

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

— Ralph Abernathy

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

— Bernice King

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he…

— Christopher Titus

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward…

— William McChesney Martin

“They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't…

— Elaine Hussey

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,…

— Wendell Phillips

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And…

— Jim Brown

The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by…

— Wunmi Mosaku

“United States... on the one hand this is a country of egalitarian promise, a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants of…

— Thomas Piketty

“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start…

— Abhijit Naskar

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of…

— Heather Mac Donald

“As a black man Al, who went through the Civil rights fight in the 60s just like you did, and saw the…

— Ken Hutcherson

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of…

— Urvashi Vaid

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed…

— John Brunner

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that…

— Jeremiah Wright

“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out…

— Ijeoma Oluo

I've always stood for my people, with my people, but some guys just don't have voices like that. I don't like the…

— P. J. Tucker

[ Tucker Carlson] thought that was the paramount example of discrimination and bigotry and all of these buzzwords these people use.

— Rush Limbaugh

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

— Park Won-soon

I've been in a male dominated industry my entire life, and I've seen that discrimination every industry that I've been in.

— Nancy Mace

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

— Miles Davis

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

— Ruby Bridges

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

— Ruby Bridges

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

— Abraham Maslow

In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.

— Misha Green

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

— Barbra Streisand

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

— Hasan M. Elahi

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that…

— Halle Berry

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

— Suzanne de Passe

“It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.”

— peter adejimi

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

— Steven Erikson