Racism Quotes · Page 130

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

— Jacqueline Woodson

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at…

— John Edgar Wideman

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

— Thomas Sowell

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

— Marine Le Pen

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

— Ben Domenech

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns…

— Booker T. Washington

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power…

— Rebecca West

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of…

— Malcolm X

Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery…

— Francisco Goldman

“White Supremacy is this nation's oldest pyramid scheme. Even those who have lost everything to the scheme are still hanging in there,…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“Racism—if you look closely—is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War—if you look closely—is about profit. Poverty, which is…

— Stan Goff

The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary…

— Chris Christie

I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any…

— Geert Wilders

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who…

— Malcolm X

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the…

— Al Sharpton

The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is…

— Patrick Gaubert

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with…

— Bell Hooks

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black…

— Bell Hooks

“Whites don't know a goddamned thing about what's gone wrong here. They say 'Detroit had this, Detroit had that… But economic power…

— Arthur L. Johnson

You know, I really don't have a specific race that I go towards or that I typically date.

— Rachel Lindsay

Attention Whores these days. -.- So much everywhere. Oh my gosh,It should be a race because theres allot of them. X''DDD

— Jasmine Laura

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

— Mike Norton

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

— John Fowles

“Let’s be honest about the fact that many of us from all races are racist. . . . We’ve lied about progress.”132”

— Jared Taylor

“Because race is different. Racism is different. It’s fraught, and it’s hard to discuss, and so as a result we often don’t.”

— Jodi Picoult

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

— Samuel Johnson

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

— Fredric Wertham

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

— Brian Tracy

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other…

— Robert Mugabe

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.

— Roger Dawson

In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

— Michael Jackson

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

— Jim DeRogatis

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

— Ron Stallworth

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

— Ruth Benedict