Racism Quotes · Page 93

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

— Rebecca Solnit

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

— Alice Childress

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

— Taboo

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

— Russell Peters

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

— Michael Jackson

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or…

— Adrienne Rich

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past…

— Aberjhani

“Dilley’s the kind of fellow who feels that being a white man makes him better at everything than everyone who isn’t. And…

— Rae Carson

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

And I always talk about how when you're mixed race, you often get told you're this, you're not that' or you're not…

— Isa Briones

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no…

— Charlotte Forten Grimke

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing…

— Anonymous

“The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing…

— John Howard Griffin

We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars…

— Johnny Van Zant

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…

— William T. Vollmann

Never in life do you hear about a large group of black people getting killed altogether. 'Cuz we run. Nigga, we run…

— Cedric The Entertainer

I am a black American, I say, and thus announce my atavistic connection to all others who live as black Americans, to…

— Shelby Steele

“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and,…

— James Baldwin

“These days, most Americans who are unashamedly prejudiced know better than to say so, except to a secure, like-minded audience, given that…

— Anonymous

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with…

— Condoleezza Rice

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,…

— Wendell Berry

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

— Jack Kornfield

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

— Gerry Spence

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

— David Lammy

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

— Spike Lee

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

— Paul Krassner

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

— Jaime Harrison

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

— Mark Steyn

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

— David Ruggles

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

— Monty Williams

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

— Rush Limbaugh

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.

— Bobby Labonte

Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

— Susan Dorothea White

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on…

— Michael Jackson

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

— Roger Bacon

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

— Jesse Lee Peterson