Racism Quotes · Page 123

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

— Anthony Marais

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

— Langston Hughes

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

— Alvin Ailey

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

— Munira Mirza

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

— Branch Rickey

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

— William Ellery Channing

“Great problem-solvers avoid being trapped into solving the wrong problem by defining the problem without prejudice or assumption”

— Nat Greene

We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it's…

— Jonathan Majors

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they…

— Thomas Sowell

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh /…

— Janice Mirikitani

“Racism demands an artificial and divisive construction of humanity, in terms of how I make sense of others and also how I…

— Debby Irving

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of…

— Napoleon Hill

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color…

— Rand Paul

Discrimination of any kind is unacceptable, but we all know there are invisible moments and instances of discrimination that take place each…

— Ned Lamont

To not rate me as a player or even dislike me as a person is fine with me. But how someone can…

— Jude Bellingham

“Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself,…

— Hozier

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims…

— Howard Zinn

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only…

— Lexi Alexander

I found that the best way to go about [ Black men ] is to produce better men. And I think if…

— Steve Harvey

“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their…

— James Baldwin

“What, you think if you live next door to them, they'll treat you different?" "Why does it always have to be about…

— Angie Thomas

“In the game of change, everyone is a winner as long as he is in the race.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.”

— DaShanne Stokes

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

— Joe Slovo

“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.”

— Erik Martin Willén

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to…

— Ida B. Wells

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

— Walter Scott

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

— James Lee Burke

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

— Radhika Apte

“#307 "The machine that is this country runs on prejudice and censorship." ~”

— Veracity by Laura Bynun

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

— Bill Frist

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

— Dov Davidoff

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

— Josephine Baker

I married an Asian. I have eight biracial children, therefore I'm quite certain that I'm the last person that could be called…

— Kate Gosselin

“The War on Drugs will go down in history as the most racist crusade since slavery.”

— Thor Benson

Black lives do matter, of course they do, but we know that the Black Lives Matter movement - capital B, L, M…

— Kemi Badenoch

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

— J. Philippe Rushton