Racism Quotes · Page 111

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come…

— Lionel

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

— Ross Douthat

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the…

— Brock Chisholm

I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's…

— Bozoma Saint John

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I'm saying us - our culture, our race, our people - we need to do better.

— YG

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

— Michael Ealy

“And just because a person is pro black doesn’t mean they are racist.”

— Rod Ballard

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race…

— Will Cain

“I have seen something else under the sun: the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor…

— Ecclesiastes 9 11

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind…

— Albert Memmi

Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their…

— David Hume

In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have…

— Peter Hollingworth

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black…

— Audre Lorde

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to…

— Keith Ellison

The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie'…

— Joy Reid

“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country…

— Rutger Bregman

“Today, many whites oppose all social reform as "welfare programs for blacks." They ignore the fact that poor whites have employment, education,…

— Derrick Bell

Today, I don't think anyone would think that a mixed-race couple looks odd; I think it's considered perfectly normal. In a very…

— Sajid Javid

“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,…

— Booker Washington; T. 8vo

It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which…

— Toni Morrison

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some…

— Lewis Grizzard

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism…

— Aaron Dessner

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

— Joel Osteen

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

— Harper Lee

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the…

— Dana Gould

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks…

— Alice Walker

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race…

— Abraham Lincoln

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

— Cornel West

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

Martin Luther King Jr. would say love not hate would make America great.

— Martin Luther King III

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

— Kristen Stewart

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

— Alvin Ailey

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

— Robert E. Howard