Racism Quotes · Page 117

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what…

— Nina Simone

“The challenge with racial privilege is that the recipient does not need to know of its existence in order to benefit from…

— Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

— Ron Paul

My Life Is a Fucking Movie Da Baddest Bitches Be Casting Im In A Race With Myself To See Who Can Get…

— Big Sean

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

— Jack Schwartz

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

— Dizzee Rascal

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

— Jose Rizal

Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism…

— Maajid Nawaz

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that…

— Hozier

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of…

— Jonathan Kozol

I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing…

— James Heckman

Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country,…

— Mike Johnson

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

— MC Ren

Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and…

— Justin Simien

“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial…

— Michelle Alexander

“You are at the same time, a god and a demon. When the god in you lacks nourishment, the demon gets hold…

— Abhijit Naskar

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And…

— Tim Wise

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I…

— Judith Martin

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had…

— Malcolm X

As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the…

— Malcolm X

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,…

— Santan Dave

“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it…

— GaryLFrancione

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

— Johnnie Cochran

“they were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

— Dervla Murphy

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

— Patricia J. Williams

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

— Robert Runcie

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

— Benjamin Watson

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

— John Oliver Killens

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

— Tituss Burgess

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

— Kinky Friedman

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

— Paul Mooney

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

— Clarence Seedorf

“No matter how justified it might feel, prejudice will shackle you.”

— Jonathan Renshaw

“That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

— Bill Ayers

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

— Daniel Tosh