Racism Quotes · Page 170

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

— Ambrose Bierce

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should…

— Jared Taylor

Racism is a physical experience.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

— Bob Cousy

'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we…

— Justin Simien

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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

— Eliud Kipchoge

Be yourself,find freindship or love beyond race and borders.LOVE sees no color.

— Wwwblackwhiteromancecom

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

— Rick Warren

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed…

— Anthony Daniels

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

— Brendan Rodgers

We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and…

— Henry Louis Gates

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

— Alex Haley

“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has…

— Ibram X. Kendi

In the past, I said I didn't want to speak on certain issues because the second I said one thing about race,…

— Tyron Woodley

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until…

— John Barnes

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.…

— Malcolm X

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…

— Howard Zinn

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

— Omar Epps

“Charges of racism are not a form of debate; they are meant to silence debate. Accusations of racism are often transparent attempts…

— Jared Taylor

What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class…

— Dahlia Lithwick

To define each other according to our superficial characteristics and then divide us and hire us and then separate us is nothing…

— Will Cain

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.”

— Anonymous

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who…

— Richard Davenport-Hines

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

— Malcolm X

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

— Julie Mehretu

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are…

— Josephine Baker

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

— Mariah Carey

I think patriotism is never racism.

— Marine Le Pen

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some…

— Lewis Grizzard

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…

— Hannah Arendt

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

— Anonymous

“Now there’s a girl who might want a piece of you,” Cal said. “Looks like somebody’s got jungle fever.” “That isn’t even…

— Rainbow Rowell

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

— Roger Ebert

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline…

— Munira Mirza

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous…

— Donald Trump