Racial discrimination Quotes · Page 2

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits…

— Clarence Thomas

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people…

— Paul Robeson

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

— Thurgood Marshall

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple…

— Pete Buttigieg

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and…

— David Duke

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,…

— John Lewis

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same…

— Oliver Tambo

Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to…

— Rashida Tlaib

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial…

— Che Guevara

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia…

— Lionel Jospin

“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet…

— Ian Haney López

“WHITE NATIONALISTS & BLACK LIVES MATTER: The harder you swing the pendulum one way, the more violently it will swing back.”

— A.E. Samaan

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact…

— Barack Obama

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

— Jimmy Carter

“The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But…

— Janelle Gray

“Trump,” she declared, to a multicultural audience at a community college, “is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his…

— Joshua Green

“Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black…

— Ibram X. Kendi

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And…

— Yoko Ono

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal…

— Shelby Steele

Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not…

— Hillary Clinton

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial…

— Pauley Perrette

People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that`s been in…

— Chris Hayes

The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its…

— David Horowitz