Racism Quotes · Page 79

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

— Adwoa Aboah

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

— Robin DiAngelo

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

— Phil Scott

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

— P. T. Barnum

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver…

— Jane Addams

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood,…

— Kevin Young

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race.…

— Fuzzy Zoeller

People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are…

— Michelle Alexander

“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“This life is not a race or a contest, there is enough abundance to go around, your seat at the table is…

— Jen Hatmaker

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection…

— Ron Chernow

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the…

— Michael Kimmel

Are we that self-centered to believe no one in the world is aware of racism right now? That, as athletes, we solve…

— Avery Bradley

I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the…

— Eric Liddell

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor…

— Ana Castillo

We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's…

— Andrew Hawkins

Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in…

— Margaret Mead

“I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was—and still am—great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends…

— Sherman Alexie

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of…

— Bruce Babbitt

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and…

— Roger Ebert

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

— Caster Semenya

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything…

— Celia Green

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

— Laurence Stallings

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

— Hasan Minhaj

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

— Bob Herbert

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

— Molly Ivins

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

— Gary Oldman

Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted.

— Doctavius

“Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt…

— Anonymous

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

— Jaylen Brown

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

— Major Taylor