Racism Quotes · Page 103

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

— Anonymous

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

— Tim Reid

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

— Michelle Alexander

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all…

— Jay-Z

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro…

— Malcolm X

The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others…

— Anonymous

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level…

— Newt Gingrich

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings…

— Desmond Tutu

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of…

— Sepp Blatter

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient…

— Sandra Dallas

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language…

— Hank Johnson

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make…

— Louis C. K

“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these…

— Langston Hughes

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long…

— Kate Millett

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“When the children were asked how many white people were “mean,” they commonly answered “almost none.” But when asked how many blacks…

— Ian Haney López

“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in…

— Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If…

— Gregory Kane

“Having been made so much inferior to caucasians makes us to glorify yellow bones”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

— Chris Gardner

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

— Gelindo Bordin

In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

People are like M&Ms we may be different different colours on the outside but on the inside we r all the same…

— Sarah Moores

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

— Bo Burnham

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

— Chris Crutcher

“Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.”

— Habeeb Akande

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

— Jo Brand

“There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and…

— Jack L. Chalker

On many occasions I have had to approach salary and bonus in a different way to white men.

— Andi Oliver

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

— Tituss Burgess

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

— Tariq Ramadan

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

— Samuel George Morton