Racism Quotes · Page 139

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

— Rush Limbaugh

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.

— Bobby Labonte

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

— Monty Williams

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the…

— Mo Farah

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

— John Newman

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“It was ridiculous that things outside a person’s control could make others hate you. The nature of your blood wasn’t a choice,…

— Melissa Marr

As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so,…

— DeAndre Yedlin

“It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and…

— Chinua Achebe

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding…

— Toni Morrison

“he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing…

— Yaa Gyasi

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the…

— Robert Kirkman

Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign…

— Mark Shields

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

— Danny DeVito

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black…

— Diahann Carroll

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the…

— Malcolm X

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she…

— Maya Angelou

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent…

— June Jordan

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…

— Michelle Alexander

“There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but then there's another story that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African…

— Tariq Ramadan

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -…

— Malcolm X

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

— Harry Belafonte

“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”

— Sondra Perl

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

— Randall Robinson

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted.

— Doctavius

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

— Gary Oldman

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

— Major Taylor

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

— Jaylen Brown

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

“Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt…

— Anonymous

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey