Racism Quotes · Page 55

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

— Angela Davis

When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it:…

— Viola Davis

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the…

— David Oyelowo

Racism is alive and well in this country; we have to learn how to love someone who doesn't look like us.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

— Maggie Gallagher

It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist.…

— Clarence Page

The racism I am really interested in stamping out is in everyday life. Joe Bloggs, who nobody knows, walks down the street…

— John Barnes

Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I…

— John Rocker

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of…

— Trevor Noah

“I Think That Skin Colors Were Created For Identification, Not For Discrimination...”

— Pedro Acevedo

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very…

— Pramila Jayapal

There are some times that I see people just hate and I'm like, 'Wow, do I suck this bad?' And yeah it's…

— Nav

“After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the…

— Toni Morrison

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to…

— Mary Church Terrell

“Those who speak of their anger, their mistrust, or their dislike of certain groups tend not to see any contradiction in this…

— Dr Val Thomas

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,…

— Santan Dave

The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

— Donna Brazile

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a…

— Pauline Hanson

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open,…

— Lynn Nottage

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism…

— James Fenton

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people,…

— Coretta Scott King

Do not feed the trolls! Racist commenters usually troll the Internet looking for people of color to harass online. If you avoid…

— Franchesca Ramsey

“I am free of all prejudices...i hate evreyone equally.”

— Catherine Goldhammer

“Great problem-solvers avoid being trapped into solving the wrong problem by defining the problem without prejudice or assumption”

— Nat Greene

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would…

— John Barnes

I'm looking for projects where race is not an issue.

— Tamlyn Tomita

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

— Reza Aslan

Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'…

— Kevin Young

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

— Samuel Johnson

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

— Barack Obama

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of…

— Terre Thaemlitz

True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way.

— Lawrence D Elliott

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

— Roberto Mancini

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag