Racism Quotes · Page 112

“repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people,”

— James W. Loewen

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

— Harvey Milk

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

— Pearl Cleage

A racist will be a racist and football is a cross-section of the male population of society.

— David James

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

— Don Marquis

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We may be half-Filipino, but the other half is pure, unadulterated racist.”

— Robin Lim

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,…

— Rand Paul

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism…

— Mathew Knowles

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return…

— Kekla Magoon

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating…

— Booker T. Washington

“I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart,…

— Suzy Kassem

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We…

— Kanye West

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America…

— Jim Brown

Up until I was 30 I really didn't date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society - not my…

— Rachel Lindsay

“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this…

— Slavoj Žižek

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the…

— Fanny Kemble

“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet…

— Ian Haney López

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and…

— Bayard Rustin

If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my…

— Gregg Popovich

“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory…

— Michelle Alexander

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is…

— Ben Hopkins

“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

— Henry Clay

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

— Herman Melville

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national…

— Branch Rickey

I love it when some people say they want racial equality, but still lock their car doors when an African American walks…

— Anonymous

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

— Lil B

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

— Azzedine Alaia

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

— Corey Stewart

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

— Amelia Bloomer

One cannot be against racism, one cannot be against sexism, unless one is against capitalism.

— Anonymous

“These southern workers were more interested in protecting their prejudices than their interests.”

— Fred Erwin Beal

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,…

— Dan Aykroyd

“You must dismantle your sources, Toc the Younger, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.”

— Steven Erikson

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

— Harry S. Truman

“Discrimination hinders people from finding community, and it robs the Church of the tremendous gifts that diversity brings.”

— John Pavlovitz