Racism Quotes · Page 125

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

— Coretta Scott King

“if you’ve experienced discrimination in one form, you’re more likely to recognize it in another. Also”

— Gloria Steinem

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to…

— J. Philippe Rushton

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

— Anonymous

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

— Arthur Kemp

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

— Hari Kondabolu

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

— Keanu Reeves

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and…

— Munira Mirza

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live…

— Betty Buckley

We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down…

— Max Boot

As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar.…

— W. Kamau Bell

Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday…

— Kate Crawford

I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some…

— Benjamin Watson

“(...) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper…

— Thomas More

“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”

— Carol Anderson

The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life…

— Shelby Steele

“Food, racism, power, and justice are linked. What I’m trying to do is dismantle culinary nutritional imperialism and gastronomic white supremacy with…

— Michael W. Twitty

“But for all of that life-shaping power, race is a mirage, which doesn’t lessen its force. We are what we see ourselves…

— Ibram X. Kendi

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we…

— Ai Weiwei

My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can…

— Tavis Smiley

Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more…

— Maya Jane Coles

Blacks have been in the position of having to rebel since day one. It's only natural. Black people are the lowest on…

— Laurence Fishburne

“Systemic racism isn’t something you can opt out of; it’s only something you can consciously resist.”

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

— Neil Warnock

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

— Rosa Parks

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,…

— Rosa Parks

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an…

— Toni Morrison

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones…

— Will Hurd

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

— John Piper

“Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.”

— Bryant McGill

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

— Rachel Dolezal

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

— Roger Ross Williams

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

— Ron Paul