Racism Quotes · Page 108

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

— P. Chidambaram

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

— Ruby Bridges

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

“Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.”

— Bryant McGill

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

— Rachel Dolezal

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

— Alvin Ailey

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

— Langston Hughes

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

— Anthony Marais

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide…

— Raquel Cepeda

I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related…

— Pauline Hanson

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are…

— Manning Marable

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm…

— Soledad O'Brien

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your…

— John Lewis

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of…

— Margaret Halsey

“The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might…

— Cornel West

I'm looking at the arguments, the facts and the law. I'm methodically and intentionally setting aside personal views, any other inappropriate considerations…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -…

— Jacob Applebaum

“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago,…

— Bryan Sykes

The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly…

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

“It is not a secret that most American and Western institutions and workplaces are very much like mountains: the higher one climbs,…

— Louis Yako

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or…

— Alicia Garza

“The only thing wrong with White people is when they embrace racist ideas and policies and then deny their ideas and policies…

— Ibram X. Kendi

It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is…

— Bocafloja

Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think.

— Romain Grosjean

Racism, even in geography, cannot be tolerated in a country that strives for liberty and justice for all.

— Al N. Green

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

— Del Shannon

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to…

— Ida B. Wells

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

— Walter Scott

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

— James Lee Burke

“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.”

— Erik Martin Willén

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

— Joe Slovo

“Great problem-solvers avoid being trapped into solving the wrong problem by defining the problem without prejudice or assumption”

— Nat Greene

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

— William Ellery Channing

“In the game of change, everyone is a winner as long as he is in the race.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

— Munira Mirza

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

— Branch Rickey