Racism Quotes · Page 140

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

— Bob Herbert

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

— Molly Ivins

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

— Caster Semenya

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

— Hasan Minhaj

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything…

— Celia Green

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

— Laurence Stallings

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and…

— Misha Green

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."…

— Bernie Sanders

With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on…

— Ben Rhodes

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into…

— Maya Angelou

“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're…

— Scaachi Koul

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in…

— Cornel West

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different…

— Russell Peters

Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable…

— Opal Tometi

I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That…

— Jeff Sessions

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters…

— Ronald Reagan

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers…

— Brock Yates

“A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy…

— bell hooks

“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It is also clear that structural racism is beating down the black chef. It started with segregation; black chefs in the South…

— Michael W. Twitty

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

— Robin DiAngelo

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

— Phil Scott

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

— Adwoa Aboah

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

— P. T. Barnum

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

— Amiri Baraka

“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any…

— Walter Cronkite

If you are that upset with it being used by people not of color, stop using it yourself.

— Anonymous

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

— Heather Mac Donald

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces. Ah hell I even fuck with different races.

— Lil Kim

“Is the fear that he is white or an athlete? Because what it comes down to is men will do what they…

— Toye Lawson Brown