Racism Quotes · Page 26

We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.

— Charles Barkley

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

— Anna Quindlen

I love everyone and I denounce hatred and bigotry in all its forms.

— John E. James

Running away from your problems is a race you will never win.

— Anonymous

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

— Malcolm X

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

— Carlos Mencia

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him.

— Louis Farrakhan

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

The biggest problem throughout the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly

— Erik Hansen

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

— Naomi Alderman

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

— Adam Fletcher

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

“1. The Amazing Race 2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans 3. Oh. (Joe O'Neill, from Opium)”

— Dave Eggers

The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you…

— Adam Goodes

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth -…

— JPEGMAFIA

A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge…

— Frankie Boyle

Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter…

— Patrisse Cullors

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and…

— Denzel Washington

Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for…

— Richard Aoki

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what…

— Herman Cain

Of course Meghan Markle wasn't driven out of this country by racism. It is a ludicrous claim and symptomatic of how ridiculous…

— Ann Widdecombe

You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private…

— Issa Rae

It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police…

— Warren Ballentine

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that…

— Barack Obama

“In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial…

— bell hooks

Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It…

— Donna Brazile

“There is no issue that is more important to baby boom and post baby boom believers than the question of gender and…

— Steve Daily

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only…

— Lexi Alexander

I found that the best way to go about [ Black men ] is to produce better men. And I think if…

— Steve Harvey

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

— Sharon Needles

Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

— George W. Bush

“ How could I love a race of people who hate me?".”

— Jill Wheeler

The level of racism that I received in school was insane.

— Jay Blades

There is no space for racism or discrimination in sport or society.

— Kane Williamson

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The smaller races were where you made your money.

— Eddy Merckx

“Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.”

— Abhijit Naskar