Racism Quotes · Page 85

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to…

— Jeff Sessions

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Having the chance to be able to fight for something really meaningful - races, championships - that's the absolute priority.

— Daniel Ricciardo

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

— Edward R. Murrow

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

— Billy Graham

“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what…

— Richard Wright

“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race,…

— William J. Clinton

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can…

— Hillary Clinton

“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the…

— Anonymous

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even…

— Noel Ignatiev

They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong…

— Clare Vanderpool

We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod…

— Rick Famuyiwa

The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“With time, the racism spread to more and more cultural arenas. American aesthetic culture was built around white standards of beauty. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I think everyone should understand history of segregation the same way we had to go to school and read about George Washington.…

— Mary J. Blige

“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk…

— Una LaMarche

“Faggot, queer, fairy. Those words aren’t taught in a history course. You don’t learn them with the alphabet. Discrimination comes from the…

— Dan Skinner

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the…

— Magda Gerber

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

— Clarence Darrow

All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.

— Charles Woodson

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

— Jess Row

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

— Zulay Henao

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

— Desmond Tutu

My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

— Ruby Bridges

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

— Lani Guinier

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

— Frantz Fanon

I challenge anybody to find a single racist statement that I've ever made.

— Corey Stewart

“At home, the females of their race had been cherished. Something the human males didn’t seem to do.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'

— Robin Sharma

“You’re tired of hearing about racism? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.” ~ Jon Stewart”

— Chris Smith

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

— Lady Gaga

Racism doesn't go overnight. It's over a period of time and education.

— Chris Hughton

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien