Racism Quotes · Page 56

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

— Christina Stead

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

— Glenn Reynolds

Nice tan, what's your race? Carrot?

— Seth Rogan

“Take your racism and jump in the Tugela!”

— Ferial Haffajee

“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Race differences show up early in life.

— J. Philippe Rushton

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

To race is to live. All the rest is simply waiting .

— Rudolf Caracciola

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

— Toni Morrison

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

— Allen Johnson

Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.

— Suzuki Shosan

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

— Robin DiAngelo

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

— Ron Reagan

“Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work…

— Murray Rothbard

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

— Dante Alighieri

Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny.

— Stephanie Coontz

“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I…

— Miquita Oliver

“Is racial violence is the answer to happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there…

— Csaba Gabor

No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald…

— Martin O'Malley

If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair…

— James D. Watson

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated…

— Paul Beatty

“Anyone who is under the impression that the bible does not directly or interpretationally foster racial discrimination is either delusional or horrifically…

— Al Stefanelli

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK…

— Allison Schroeder

“Equality over stereotype. In our field, we deal with all kinds of people from different backgrounds, races, and religions. There is no…

— Belle Aurora

The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

“We should ask ourselves whether efforts to achieve "cosmetic" racial diversity- that is, reform efforts that make institutions look good on the…

— Michelle Alexander

“The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a…

— Frazier Glenn Miller

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

— Eric Hoffer

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

— Ronald Firbank

“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“To belong to a school is necessarily to espouse its prejudices.”

— Gustave Lebon

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

— Kurt Cobain

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

— Harry Belafonte

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

— Lester Holt

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

— Margaret Sanger