Racism Quotes · Page 106

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some”

— John Corvino

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

— Jon Lee Anderson

“Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.”

— Bryant McGill

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

— John Fowles

I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the…

— DeRay Mckesson

I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to…

— Chelsea Handler

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder…

— Ida B. Wells

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100…

— Jackie Robinson

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license…

— Sarah Silverman

The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism…

— Rod Lurie

The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any…

— John Rollin Ridge

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well…

— Malcolm X

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant…

— Abraham Lincoln

In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick…

— Pete Gill

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are…

— George Berkeley

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have…

— Skai Jackson

“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will…

— Harry S. Truman

“Which seems ridiculous, but it would happen. Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. It wasn’t a…

— Trevor Noah

“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are…

— Eula Biss

I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that…

— Hasan Minhaj

There's much more venality in the world than there is racism in the world, I find. If it makes money, they'll be…

— Paterson Joseph

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

— Sarah Silverman

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

— George Gilder

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

— Michael Yates

“The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.”

— Robert Jacoby

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

— Hilton Als

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to…

— J. Philippe Rushton

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

— Anonymous

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

— Arthur Kemp

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

— Hari Kondabolu

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

— Anonymous

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

— Coretta Scott King

“if you’ve experienced discrimination in one form, you’re more likely to recognize it in another. Also”

— Gloria Steinem

“The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.”

— Gregory Benford