Racial Quotes · Page 4

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

— Rickey Medlocke

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

— Henry L. Stimson

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

— Marcus Smart

When I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial.

— Jim Brown

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

— Ron Fournier

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

— Dov Davidoff

“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?”

— Junot Díaz

“This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel…

— Jared Taylor

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going…

— Bill Goldberg

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,…

— Michael Ignatieff

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Policing language and even legislating against certain behaviours will only go so far to address the pervasive problem of racial bias. To…

— John Barnes

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That…

— Martin Jacques

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

— Tim Wise

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind…

— Shirley Chisholm

I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each…

— Barack Obama

There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people…

— Eric Holder

“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal…

— Ian Haney López

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe…

— John Ridley

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but…

— Rick Perlstein

We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd…

— Jarome Iginla

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes…

— Tim Wise

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

— Jonathan Kozol

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

— Kenneth Clark

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

— Princess Nokia

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

— Shekhar Kapur

I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

— Michelle Alexander

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of…

— Al Sharpton

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so…

— St. Lucia

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

— will.i.am

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather…

— Tim Wise

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they…

— Tom Paulin

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion…

— Dasha Zhukova

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

— Billy Graham

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I…

— Ken Mehlman

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm…

— Margaret Cho

I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an…

— Sal Albanese