Racism Quotes · Page 249

“I was a young black man, light-skinned enough so that four out of five people who met me, of whatever race, assumed…

— Samuel R. Delany

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as…

— Hillary Clinton

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

— Jonathan Swift

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“As a colored man I felt greatly encouraged and strengthened for my cause while listening to these men, in the presence of…

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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

— Malcolm X

“I meant “tribalism” in the widest sense of the word, as applied to race, religion, nationalism, or politics. George Orwell defined it…

— John Carlin

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm passionate about my race.

— Latto

A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race,…

— Mallory Ortberg

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or…

— Hans Kung

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that…

— Carson McCullers

“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had…

— M.B. Wilmot

Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.

— Derrick Grayson

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

— Robin DiAngelo

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

— Bess Truman

[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

— Donald Trump

We are about to have a racial explosion.

— Malcolm X

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

— Charles Barkley

I like to race. I like to compete.

— Caeleb Dressel

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito…

— Alessandra Mussolini

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we…

— Jim McKay