Racism Quotes · Page 127

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by…

— Coretta Scott King

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

— Mercedes Lackey

Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well.

— Munira Mirza

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

— Joe Thomas

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

— Deepak Chopra

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a…

— Steven Wright

“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?”

— Kate Atkinson

When 93 percent of our stories are told by white men, it's an issue. And if those white men go on and…

— Lexi Alexander

“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

— Condoleezza Rice

A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning…

— Angie Thomas

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as…

— Robert Lewis Hinkle

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and…

— Winston Churchill

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation…

— Roxane Gay

“You are not exceptional, Sam. You know this. You are ignorant enough to chase a carrot with simple elation. However, you eliminate…

— Corey Croft

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by…

— Michael Moore

“When you find yourself judging, yourself or others, move on to something else. It’s a hallmark symptom of mindlessness to be constantly…

— Anonymous

“Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting,…

— Frantz Fanon

Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're…

— Emily Raboteau

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“WHITE AMERICANS HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL SENSE OF HISTORY. They make it up as they go along, constantly revising to suit their…

— Craig Ferguson

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.…

— Cornel West

“Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when…

— Nancy Isenberg

“Long since I have liberated my self from race, religion and ignorance.”

— johnjwillard

Thank you Martin Luther King Jr. A man who fought for racial equality with a heart for The Lord.

— Anonymous

“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, and traffickers were white.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Even if you look a little unusual, you're a member of the human race.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

— Bruce Springsteen

Discrimination against both women and the LGBTQ community is unacceptable.

— George Santos

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

— Roger Ross Williams

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

— Harry Reid

The biggest problem though out the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly.

— Erik Hansen

“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.”

— Jared Taylor

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

— Freya Stark

There's no such thing as racism, sexism, 'homophobi-ism,' 'Islamophobi-ism' - it's good versus evil, right versus wrong.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

— Luciana Berger

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is…

— Lewis Hamilton