Racism Quotes · Page 91

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie…

— Toni Morrison

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

— John F. Kennedy

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

— Omar Epps

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

— Brené Brown

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

— Michael Jackson

I'm not racist:' Many self-proclaimed white allies say this to shut down conversations about how racism affects our society.

— Jason Johnson

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Racist policies forcing free Blacks into menial jobs were being defended by racist claims that lazy and unskilled Black people were best…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."…

— Bernie Sanders

Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're…

— Scaachi Koul

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in…

— Cornel West

With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on…

— Ben Rhodes

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into…

— Maya Angelou

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other,…

— James Baldwin

“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people…

— Aaron B. Powell

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified…

— Henry A. Wallace

I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the…

— Tao Lin

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government…

— John F. Kennedy

With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're…

— Patrisse Cullors

“We are not past racism. It took us 500 and however many years to get us where we are; it's not gonna…

— Anonymous

“White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some…

— Matt Ruff

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long. And in the end, its only with yourself.

— Baz Lurhman

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

— David Olusoga

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

— Booker T. Washington

“There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.”

— Lance Armstrong

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

— Lilly Singh

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

— Kemi Badenoch

“They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.”

— Dick Gregory

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

— Jacque Fresco

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

— Blase J. Cupich

I think that President Donald Trump has clearly not just said racist things, but is a racist.

— Ben Ray Lujan

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists -…

— Herman Cain

That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.

— Claudette Colvin

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

— Lewis Schiff

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race.”

— Susan Cain

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

— John Lewis