Racism Quotes · Page 128

There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.

— Dan Schulman

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Racism will go away when people stop giving in to those who cry racism when they don't get their way!

— Sarah Moores

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

— Rand Paul

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

— Jenny Zhang

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

— Peter Steele

“Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.”

— Paul Kengor

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European…

— Alexis Carrel

When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not…

— John Adams

There was never any problem with racism when I was growing up - which some find surprising. Maybe the Welsh are a…

— Colin Jackson

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King…

— Marc Morial

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been…

— Bob Cousy

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early,…

— Pauley Perrette

But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as…

— Barbara Bergmann

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For…

— Martin Jacques

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check…

— Michael Bloomberg

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes…

— Steven Biko

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out…

— Richard Lamm

With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive…

— Angela Rye

There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay…

— Deborah Rhode

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

— Maya Angelou

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

— Margaret Sanger

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

— Cornel West

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.

— Ash Sarkar

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.

— James T Kirk

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

— Jimmy Carter

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

— Barack Obama

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

— Shirley Chisholm

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

— Bobby Jindal

“There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Before 'Race 3,' I had not done a role which required me to do action.

— Saqib Saleem

Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

— Godfrey

I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.

— Maxime Bernier

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

— Shirley Chisholm