Racism Quotes · Page 73

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

— Max Stirner

But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to…

— Norman Jewison

Boy, we looking for trouble. Maybe if we wasnt black then we wouldnt have struggled.

— Cyhi Da Prynce

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

— Mark Twain

'Sizwa Banzi' is the life of the black man. We look at it, laugh at it, re-examine it, but we do not…

— John Kani

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

— Marian Wright Edelman

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

— Alaska

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

— Stephen Colbert

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups…

— James Heckman

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of…

— Bernard Baruch

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in…

— Ed Asner

“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We have to look at it holistically and as a whole and say let us tackle racism or discrimination in life. Then…

— John Barnes

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the…

— Orson Scott Card

“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far…

— Wesley Lowery

“As people of color, we feel the greatest impact of this injustice, of this inhumane treatment,” Gwen Carr said. “Some people say…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“The stereotypical images we hold toward groups are powerful in influencing what people see and expect of students. Unless educators consciously try…

— Pedro A. Noguera

“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and…

— Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Today, we are the nation we are because of icons who refused to cower in the eye of signs that read 'whites…

— Byron Donalds

We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that…

— Clint Smith

I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all…

— Michael Jackson

“One night, I was out driving with a few friends of mine when the police pulled us over. We were told we…

— Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

“White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.”

— Chris Hayes

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

— Joseph Stiglitz

There's just been so much, you know, blatant lies about me, specifically when it comes to questions of Nazism and racism.

— Madison Cawthorn

Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.

— Katrina Adams

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

— Sister Souljah

I never commit hate crimes because I'm against discrimination and assaulting random strangers is much more fun.

— Nikhil Saluja

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

— Sargent Shriver

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy…

— Tracy Morgan

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

— Lindsey Graham

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would…

— Barack Obama

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor