Racism Quotes · Page 153

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

— Cynthia McKinney

I think that we need to make sure that we have frank conversations about race and color and discrimination within this country.

— Daniel Cameron

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

— Audre Lorde

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

— Malcolm X

The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as saying I want to do something about…

— Marco Rubio

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they…

— Snoop Dogg

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I'm a Western chauvinist. I'm all about the culture. Now, part of that is recognizing that white males seem to be the…

— Gavin McInnes

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want…

— Wesley Morris

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging…

— Louis J. Halle

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing…

— Cornel West

I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I…

— Misty Copeland

“When we let "RACE" to become the narrative in everything we do, then we'll never have an "America" of its true quality,…

— Henry Johnson Jr

Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,…

— John Lewis

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that…

— June Jordan

“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds…

— George Eliot

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by…

— Gore Vidal

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

— Michael Savage

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

— Adolf Hitler

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

— Paul Mooney

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are,…

— Guy Scott

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

— Bobby Morley

Love has no color lines, love who you love. No matter the color or race.

— Enhance Dreams

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

— Malcolm Gladwell

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

— Kenneth Clark

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

— Billy Graham

That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!

— Kris Kobach

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

— Eric Reid

“in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.”

— Yaa Gyasi

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based…

— Ben Stein

“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.”

— Matthew Quick

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal

— John Ruskin

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

— John D. Rockefeller