Racism Quotes · Page 75

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.

— Kemi Badenoch

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

— John Stuart Mill

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

— Joey Skaggs

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

“If you travel for years in an integrated band, you see racism in action.”

— Bruce Springsteen

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

— Dolores Huerta

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

— Charles Barkley

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter…

— Malcolm X

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that…

— Desmond Tutu

A person should be judged by the actions of his or her own heart and character not by his or her race,…

— Veedan Shimakuura

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the…

— Bell Hooks

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white,…

— Jenny Zhang

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater…

— Herbert Otto Gille

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

“Children, however magical, are not immune to their parents; and as the prejudices and world-views of adults began to take over their…

— Salman Rushdie

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back…

— Russell Peters

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most…

— Jacques Barzun

“Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine…

— bell hooks

My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme…

— Marjorie Liu

I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less…

— Barack Obama

White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter…

— Bernard Goldberg

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

— Liz Cambage

There's not a single job in the world where you deserve to be criticized with racism.

— Jude Bellingham

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil

“We need a change of attitude, because let's face it, no one’s going to change color”

— Jaco Strydom

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

— Muhammad Ali

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?

— Donald Sterling

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

— Kyler Murray

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

— Warren Farrell

Black lives do matter. We cannot be afraid to say it, so I'll say it again: Black lives do matter.

— Ron Rivera

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

— Ward Connerly

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

— Booker T. Washington

I think as a black woman, we have a lot of colorism going on around us, and we have a lot of…

— Zozibini Tunzi

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

— Marco Rubio

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

— Christian Rudder