Racism Quotes · Page 107

“You are so articulate.” Translated by a person of color as, “I can’t believe someone from your race is so smart.”

— Trudy Bourgeois

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

— Virginia Woolf

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones…

— Will Hurd

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

— John Piper

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

— Rosa Parks

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up…

— Michael Harrington

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should…

— Marley Dias

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race,…

— Tom Lehrer

We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have…

— Clint Smith

I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons…

— Muhammad Ali

“No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil…

— Susan Howatch

I think that's part of the U.K. There's racism, but it's very hush racism, right? It's not like in America; there's blatant…

— Leon Edwards

“Representations of pre-Color humans stand beside casualty statistics. One hundred and ten million died for Gold to rule. Then their bombers dropped…

— Pierce Brown

When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it…

— Timothy Keller

“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed…

— Noel Ignatiev

“Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to…

— Hans J. Massaquoi

“I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“If we make a list of those aspects in which we are tied to iniquity as nations with their own culture, this…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain't going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are…

— Alicia Garza

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an…

— Toni Morrison

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,…

— Rosa Parks

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

— Neil Warnock

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

— Keanu Reeves

“Systemic racism isn’t something you can opt out of; it’s only something you can consciously resist.”

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

“Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

— Manning Marable

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

— Sam Esmail

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

— Christopher McDougall

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.”

— Whitney Otto

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

— Roger Ross Williams

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

— Ron Paul