Racism Quotes · Page 120

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

— Andre Holland

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

— Keir Hardie

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The worst case of discrimination can be witnessed in music. Imagine calling B 'sharp' in presence of D 'minor”

— EverSkeptic

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

— Maya Angelou

The Left Front, being an egalitarian political force, has always supported removing untouchability and discrimination in society.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

— Lionel Blue

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

— Khem Veasna

There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for…

— Harriet Lerner

Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not…

— Ralph Nader

“At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have always…

— Mrs. Oliphant

I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of…

— Thandie Newton

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white…

— Kathleen Hanna

A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged…

— Cori Bush

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American…

— Clarence Major

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a…

— Peggy McIntosh

Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody.…

— Van Jones

There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive…

— Amma Asante

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are…

— Margaret Sanger

To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a…

— Bruce Lee

“It isn't enough to talk about integration without coming to see that integration is more than something to be dealt with in…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“There is a great deal of nonsense written on the subject of diversity and multiculturalism, but the fact remains that the great…

— Maria Poggi Johnson

In order to spur progress, we all need to be people who point out and shine a spotlight on racism wherever we…

— Joe Thomas

I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not…

— Amira Hass

All those races, all those victories and losses, it's as if they happened to someone else.

— Eddy Merckx

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of…

— Anonymous

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

— Howard Charles

We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black…

— Opal Tometi

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

— Shirley Chisholm

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

— H. A. L. Fisher

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

— Lawrence Davidson

Anyone that believes that all men of a race are bad, because one man of a race is bad is a fool.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

— Michelle Alexander

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

— Lily Tomlin

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

— J. Nozipo Maraire

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

— Viola Davis

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder