Racism Quotes · Page 113

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

— Dave Chappelle

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of…

— Chuka Umunna

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”

— DaShanne Stokes

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

— Nicolas Malebranche

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

— Gordon Allport

I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.”

— Shesh Nath Vernwal

“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together…

— Simon S. Tam

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man…

— Marcus Garvey

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during…

— Jim Webb

“I’ve learned that when it comes to race, there’s no such thing as neutral: either I’m intentionally and strategically working against it,…

— Debby Irving

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been…

— Shirley Chisholm

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by…

— Viggo Mortensen

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I…

— Miquita Oliver

“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence…

— Alex Haley

“Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with dismay that…

— Celeste Ng

“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do…

— Robin DiAngelo

We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look…

— KRS-One

When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,…

— June Jordan

America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,…

— Andrew Tobias

“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they…

— Maya Angelou

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

— Sterling K. Brown

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

— Lillian Smith

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

— David Duke

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

— James A. Baldwin

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

— Elie Wiesel

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end…

— Assata Shakur

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

— Carl Hart

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

Anti-racism is one of our central values and there was a time not long ago when the left actively confronted anti-Semitism.

— Luciana Berger

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

— Sydney J. Harris

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

— Jack Kemp

“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”

— Lesley Kagen

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

— Jane Russell

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

— Pat Nixon