Racism Quotes · Page 156

I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.

— Saikat Chakrabarti

“Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.”

— John Oulton Wisdom

You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.

— Joe Biden

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

— Assata Shakur

“Racism is nothing more than a philosophy created to cover up FEAR and replace it with superiority.”

— Rashaad Lee

Donald Trump is misogynist and a racist; he is thin-skinned and beyond unqualified to be president.

— Chrissy Teigen

“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“epithets, and racial caricatures. Like this one. This one doesn’t even”

— C.H. Dalton

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the…

— Steven Conrad

A lot of racism is paternalism. A lot of people hide their own racism because they treat blacks, minorities and other groups…

— Jim Norton

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic…

— August Wilson

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy…

— Clint Smith

There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been…

— Michelle Singletary

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything…

— Simone Weil

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according…

— Mary Hunter Austin

Race has clearly played a role in Kentucky's Obama-phobia, as it has in other swaths of Appalachia. The Obama administration's supposed 'war…

— Steve Kornacki

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms…

— Stacey Abrams

“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the…

— Bell Hooks

“As I prepared to publish this book, a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia took place. One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed…

— Darcy Burke

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't…

— John Edgar Wideman

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and…

— Myka 9

“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and bees. Well, I didn't really…

— Angie Thomas

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

— Jimmy Carter

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

— Eric Williams

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

— Kara Walker

I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.

— John Barnes

You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

— Maurice Greene

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

— Heather Mac Donald

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

— Anonymous

Just cause you don't agree with a man, 'cause you're black, don't mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different…

— Damon Dash

“Do you know what it’s called when you hate something you know nothing about? It’s called prejudice.”

— Heather Munn

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

— Katori Hall

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

— Sayani Gupta

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb