Racism Quotes · Page 148

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

— David Oyelowo

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. —Jeffrey Arduan”

— Steve White

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“When we come to see ourselves as "RACE." We act like a "RACE" and if not liberated, we perhaps, die like one.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.”

— Debby Irving

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

— Adam Hochschild

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

— Claudette Colvin

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

— Walter Annenberg

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites…

— Medgar Evers

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make…

— Anonymous

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game.…

— Eminem

“Racist policies forcing free Blacks into menial jobs were being defended by racist claims that lazy and unskilled Black people were best…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for…

— Louis Farrakhan

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war,…

— Andrew Young

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early…

— Shirley Sherrod

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This…

— Gwen Ifill

“The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It’s…

— Anne Helen Petersen

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing…

— Robin DiAngelo

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always…

— Brian Tyree Henry

“Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the…

— Herbert Spencer

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

— Ann Coulter

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

— Gordon Allport

We must not be cowed by the terror unleashed by White men drowning in the deep end of racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

— Jonathan Capehart

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to…

— Mary Church Terrell

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of…

— Marcus Garvey

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

— John Barnes

Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.

— Letitia James

Hating someone because of their skin color is ridiculous. I, for one, hate everybody. No discrimination here!

— Anonymous

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

— Phillip Lopate

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

Rapid pace rat race, the human race in your face, tactless people without grace, the planet earth's a ruined place.

— Steve Fowler

“In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”

— Christopher Hitchens

In this race doomed to fail, we are worlds apart. In this system you support, we are worlds apart. In my soul,…

— Hatebreed

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

— Laurence Fishburne

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes