Racism Quotes · Page 72

One of the most subtle but aggressive ways racism exists is through our education system.

— Jaylen Brown

The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.

— Daniel James, Jr

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

— Rudy Giuliani

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

— Dani Alves

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Vaccinated with love, boosted with reason, mind becomes a powerhouse, putting an end to all discrimination.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of…

— Michael Jackson

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated…

— John Henrik Clarke

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white,…

— Jordan Peele

“So despite all political progress, social advancement, and appearance of acceptance, here was my grandmother speaking the voice of prejudice. It had…

— Monica Byrne

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He…

— H. L. Mencken

It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking…

— Jordan Peele

The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works…

— Shirley Chisholm

By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group…

— Ron Paul

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator.…

— James Franco

America doesn't exist in decline! America never has existed in decline, and people do not want to be told that the country…

— Rush Limbaugh

“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life,…

— Manning Marable

“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same;…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people…

— Kim R. Holmes

“The insistence is on merit, insinuating that any current majority white leadership in any industry has got there through hard work and…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk…

— Roger Ebert

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other…

— Randall Kennedy

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

— Jean Stapleton

While progress has been made, there is still more work to do to root out systemic racism and inequity.

— Ben Ray Lujan

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep…

— Ron Stallworth

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

— Cathy O'Neil

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

— Octavia E. Butler

“It is not intelligence but ignorance and insecurity that causes arrogance and other delusions of superiority.”

— Arne Klingenberg

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“In people’s lives and worldviews, concerns about economics, race, gender, class, and culture all blend together.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

— Bill Mollison

I obviously try to avoid racism, because that's one thing that I should not be putting on to the Internet.

— Grace Helbig

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.”

— Tony Horwitz

“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings.

— Big K.R.I.T