Racism Quotes · Page 151

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

— Jess Row

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

— Adam Schiff

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.

— Alan Wilson

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

— Malcolm X

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

— Bob Beckel

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not…

— J. C. Watts

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities…

— Robert D Bullard

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to…

— Wendell Willkie

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and…

— Wentworth Miller

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way,…

— Rosie Perez

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro…

— Countee Cullen

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from…

— Malcolm X

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that…

— Kelly Marie Tran

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit…

— Barack Obama

White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts…

— Malcolm X

This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King…

— Sara Paretsky

The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one…

— Tacitus

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state…

— Richard M. Weaver

“We’re never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so…

— Barack Obama

The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying…

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more…

— Ishmael Reed

Of course some people who oppose mass migration are racists, but then so are some of the people who support it.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

— Mary Hays

We should see ourself as a panda, Their white their black and also their asian.

— Axel

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

— John Prendergast

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

— Phil Gramm

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who…

— Muhammad Ali

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

— Ida B. Wells

“It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.”

— Voltaire

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

— Jamaica Kincaid

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

— Cornel West

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

— Margaret Cho

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Playing football is important, but the fight against racism is very important.

— Vinicius Junior