Racism Quotes · Page 137

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

— Kyler Murray

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter…

— Bernard Goldberg

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil

There's not a single job in the world where you deserve to be criticized with racism.

— Jude Bellingham

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

— Liz Cambage

“If you travel for years in an integrated band, you see racism in action.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

“If you’re too slow off a red light, I’ll lay on my horn, because I’m a honky. Was that racist? Only if…

— Jarod Kintz

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally,…

— Anonymous

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that…

— Jessica Valenti

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family,…

— Jason Whitlock

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves,…

— John Henrik Clarke

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been…

— Amelia Bloomer

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him…

— William Wells Brown

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted…

— Edgar Davids

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of…

— Audre Lorde

“Whether it's racism, patriarchy, warmongering, greed, or child trafficking, it's counter to God's Kingdom. But the people caught in those systems are…

— Sarah Bessey

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under…

— Potter Stewart

“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate…

— Trevor Noah

When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What…

— Thomas Sowell

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black…

— Junius Williams

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

— Charles Barkley

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

— Dolores Huerta

It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.

— Kemi Badenoch

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important…

— Curtis Mayfield

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

— Joey Skaggs

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

— John Stuart Mill

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just…

— Michael Jackson

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

— Nat Hentoff

Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

— Warren Farrell

I hope Spain can evolve and understand the seriousness of insulting someone because of their skin colour.

— Vinicius Junior

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

— Angelique Kidjo

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them

— Karen Marie Moning

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will…

— Fabian Cancellara

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

— Ras Baraka