Racism Quotes · Page 104

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

— Michael Hutchence

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

— Alex Haley

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality...

— John Hume

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.

— Derrick Grayson

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“...[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.”

— Howard Zinn

Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and…

— Dean Spade

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for…

— Mark Steyn

“Julian Huxley brought several other new words and concepts into biology, including replacing the much-maligned term race with the phrase ethnic group.”

— Geoffrey West

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

— Joe Scarborough

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the…

— Carter G. Woodson

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race…

— Jamaica Kincaid

All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection…

— Dana Tai Soon Burgess

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real…

— Raoul Peck

It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist.…

— Clarence Page

Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think, in the United States, we talk about race as a black and white issue... We're generally talking about it as…

— Celeste Ng

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result…

— Malcolm X

Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we…

— Immortal Technique

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.”

— DaShanne Stokes

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

— Angela Davis

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight…

— Frank O'Hara

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

— Pete Seeger

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me…

— Courtney A. Kemp

“The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.”

— Andrena Sawyer

“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

— John Hume

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all…

— Stephanie Land

Interracial relationships are beautiful, not just white & black, but other races mixed just makes the world a little less arrogant.

— Anonymous

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

— Ferran Adria

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

— Radhika Apte