Racism Quotes · Page 84

This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

— Burning Spear

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

— William Blake

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.”

— Agatha Christie

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

— Spike Lee

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

— Marion Barry

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

The rise in discrimination and hateful targeting of the AAPI community has to stop.

— Michelle Steel

If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting…

— Maureen Dowd

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our…

— Jonathan Kozol

I don't want to allow everyone in the media to say everyone is in the alt right, which is what they try…

— Matt Schlapp

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first…

— Jesmyn Ward

It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state,…

— Oscar Micheaux

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of…

— Booker T. Washington

“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than…

— Shannon Celebi

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture.…

— John Cho

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored.…

— Nicholas Johnson

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Hitler divided humans into three categories based on physical appearance. He declared the Aryan race as biologically and culturally superior to other…

— Hourly History

“Oddly, I had never thought of myself as a feminist. I had been denounced by certain radical feminist collectives as a ‘lackey’…

— Elaine Brown

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call…

— Michael Emerson

“May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupying your mind-set needs to be…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“He was not safe. I wasn't angry, I was heartbroken. We couldn't talk about the ways in which race and racism impacted…

— Ijeoma Oluo

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

— James Earl Jones

I fell asleep watching the country music channel and woke up racist.

— Daniel Tosh

Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

— Ana Navarro

[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.

— Stewart Oneglia

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

— Rich Lowry

It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions.

— Senora Roy

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

— James McBride

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

— Martin Luther King III

I think that USA has done a step forward against racism by having a black president...twice. There's acceptance of american people.

— Anonymous

“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.”

— Junius Williams

There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers.

— Jason Johnson

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

— Jesse Jackson

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

— John Lancaster Spalding

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

— Anonymous

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

“And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes.”

— Anonymous