Racism Quotes · Page 101

“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.”

— Tony Horwitz

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

I obviously try to avoid racism, because that's one thing that I should not be putting on to the Internet.

— Grace Helbig

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would…

— Barack Obama

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

— Lindsey Graham

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy…

— Tracy Morgan

“There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn’t call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn’t think…

— Dorothy B. Hughes

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can…

— Donald Glover

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark…

— Maya Lin

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the…

— Anonymous

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do…

— Malcolm X

“It’s weird how obsessed the media is with calling everyone racist, isn’t it? It’s almost like they want everyone to be racist…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their…

— Amybeth McNulty

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or…

— Huey Newton

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better…

— Al-Maʿarri

I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy…

— Joan Wallach Scott

“GamerGate wasn’t really about video games at all so much as it was a flash point for radicalized online hatred that had…

— Zoe Quinn

“Just as the cops were annoyed when Ricky said he had been repeatedly stopped because he is black, discussion of race is…

— Gabrielle Union

“And while Canada purports to be multicultural, Toronto in particular, a place where everyone is holding hands and cops are handing out…

— Scaachi Koul

“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for…

— Tom Brokaw

What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Hominy got out of the car to untangle the snarl. Waving his arms like the crazy man he was, he separated the…

— Paul Beatty

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.

— Katrina Adams

There's just been so much, you know, blatant lies about me, specifically when it comes to questions of Nazism and racism.

— Madison Cawthorn

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.”

— Chris Hayes

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

— Stephen Colbert

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

— Sargent Shriver

I never commit hate crimes because I'm against discrimination and assaulting random strangers is much more fun.

— Nikhil Saluja

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

— Sister Souljah

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

— Steven Biko

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva