Racism Quotes · Page 122

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

— Cornel West

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

— John Barnes

“I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced.”

— Anonymous

“Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.”

— James Taranto

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

— Margaret Sanger

“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal…

— Shelby Steele

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what other people think. You're out there running your own race and…

— Bubba Wallace

“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime…

— Jesse Jackson

This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate?…

— Sebastian Lelio

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm…

— Logic

“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but…

— Derrick Bell

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to…

— Edmund Burke

“After all, in the nineteenth century, racists relied on phrenology, or the “science” of determining personality traits based on the shape of…

— Francione, Gary L

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you…

— Malcolm X

You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private…

— Issa Rae

It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police…

— Warren Ballentine

In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that…

— David Harewood

“Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s…

— Mat Johnson

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have…

— Gerda Lerner

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

— Robert A. Heinlein

When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.

— Lana Condor

I loved the African-American culture, but racism was still a big problem and white America was exactly what I didn't love.

— Mick Hucknall

If life is a race, chasing your dream should be your aim, not competing with others

— Blaze Olamiday

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like.

— Hilton Als

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

— Amitava Kumar

I'm not super-easily offended, but it's a problem when someone's making you feel different or separate because of your race.

— Emma Weymouth

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

— James Hillman

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

— Anonymous

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

— Laura Bohannan

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

— Yogi Adityanath

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

— Del Shannon

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think.

— Romain Grosjean

Racism, even in geography, cannot be tolerated in a country that strives for liberty and justice for all.

— Al N. Green