Racism Quotes · Page 145

“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

— Nadine Gordimer

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

— Christopher Hitchens

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

— Nina Simone

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

— Joanna Noelle Levesque

I think a lot of people are clueless about the degree of hatred of whites.

— Heather Mac Donald

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

— Nikita Thukral

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

— Ellen DeGeneres

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

— Gore Vidal

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a…

— Peyton Hillis

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that…

— J. Philippe Rushton

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be…

— Clarence Thomas

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of…

— Booker T. Washington

“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than…

— Shannon Celebi

It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state,…

— Oscar Micheaux

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first…

— Jesmyn Ward

I don't want to allow everyone in the media to say everyone is in the alt right, which is what they try…

— Matt Schlapp

Those of us that get to a certain level, we have to start giving back to our communities, giving information it's something…

— Charlamagne Tha God

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries…

— Margaret Halsey

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his…

— Anonymous

“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure…

— Benito Mussolini

“Diversity is not an accident or a problem ; it is a sign of God’s providence and promise. If the church gets…

— Kevin Jones

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced…

— Margaret Halsey

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who…

— Malcolm X

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still…

— Deborah Meier

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

— Assata Shakur

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

— Stokely Carmichael

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

— Anais Nin

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

— Andre Gide

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

— Richard Pryor

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white…

— Daryl Hall

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

— Dennis Prager

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists…

— Thomas Sowell

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

— Lonnie Johnson

In the final analysis of your life, you won't be asked about the colour of your skin - but about the content…

— Nushra

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

— Norman Podhoretz

Racism needs to be eliminated, ignorance educated and opportunities created.

— Simon Jordan

“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in…

— Lance Armstrong