Racism Quotes · Page 155

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

— Jesse Jackson

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

— Strom Thurmond

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives…

— Rhea Ripley

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

— August Wilson

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

— Gerry Spence

It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.

— Sean Hannity

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong…

— Frances Harper

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of…

— Whitney M. Young

I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their…

— Patrisse Cullors

“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to…

— Robin DiAngelo

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost…

— Malcolm X

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a…

— Brian Dyson

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line,…

— Ed Bearss

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she…

— James Earl Jones

“If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware…

— John Howard Griffin

“Trump,” she declared, to a multicultural audience at a community college, “is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his…

— Joshua Green

Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not…

— Robin DiAngelo

The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a…

— Chris Matthews

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is…

— Scott Woods

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and…

— H. L. Mencken

I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically…

— Tao Lin

The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future…

— Michael Buble

“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to…

— GaryLFrancione

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

— Sydney Smith

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

— Amy Ridenour

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it…

— Peggy McIntosh

“The white race increasingly deserves the name given by the American Indians: palefaces.”

— Emil M. Cioran

If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.

— Henry Billings Brown

[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler.

— Mary Matalin

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

— Jonathan Kozol

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

— Joseph Sobran

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of…

— Q-Tip

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

— Adam Fletcher

The United States isn't a racist country. South Carolina isn't a racist state. And we've moved on from our nation's racist past.

— Nancy Mace

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had done before.

— Eliud Kipchoge

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

— Amber Hollibaugh

I don't think Spain is a racist country, I think we have a very high level of integration.

— Dani Carvajal