Racism Quotes · Page 116

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

— Stanley Crouch

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

— Neil Postman

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

— Ruby Bridges

What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.

— Tyra Banks

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

— George Bernard Shaw

We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

— Ilhan Omar

Black people, take a cue from the Jews. When people discriminate against you, don't get mad...Get smart, get rich, and then get…

— Anonymous

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

— Akeem Ayers

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight…

— Erik Spoelstra

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble…

— Leigh Hunt

A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same.…

— Thulasiraj Ravilla

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and…

— Quentin Bryce

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights…

— Jim Costa

We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for…

— John Amaechi

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored,…

— Nat King Cole

Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over.…

— John Legend

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We…

— Ken Follett

Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find…

— Solly Granatstein

Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach…

— Madonna Ciccone

Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'…

— Hilton Als

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent…

— Dwayne McDuffie

“Many otherwise decent, smart, and fair-minded white folks may also recoil at the thought that Whiteness and White Masculinity can be dysfunctional…

— Anonymous

I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for…

— John F. Kerry

I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.

— Brock Lesnar

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

— Donald Trump

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

— Timothy Noah

There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.

— Rebecca Traister

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

— Steven Biko

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

— Derrick Bell

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice

— Lady Gaga

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own…

— Henry Golding

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected…

— Thomas Sowell

“If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.”

— Toba Beta

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

— Tomi Lahren

Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.

— Norman Davies

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

— Allan Boesak

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and…

— Huey Newton

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

— Amanda Seales

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

— Jaggi Vasudev