Racism Quotes · Page 15

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

— Shirley Chisholm

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

— Anthea Butler

“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”

— William A. Henry III

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how…

— Nas

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

— Lynda Barry

I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.

— Coretta Scott King

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't…

— Angelina Jolie

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

— Booker T. Washington

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made…

— Norah Vincent

“We are not past racism. It took us 500 and however many years to get us where we are; it's not gonna…

— Anonymous

“But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the…

— Orson Scott Card

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Let’s be honest about the fact that many of us from all races are racist. . . . We’ve lied about progress.”132”

— Jared Taylor

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been…

— Bob Cousy

“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these…

— Langston Hughes

Discrimination , in all its forms, is bad for business.

— Tim Cook

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating…

— Rebecca West

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

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

— Constance Baker Motley

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

— Angela Yee