Racism Quotes · Page 70

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

— Homer

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

— Miguel de Cervantes

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

— Tyler Perry

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

— Tom Gjelten

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

— Justin Simien

Discrimination - in any form - is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire's Live Free or Die Spirit.

— Chris Sununu

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

— Danny Harris

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.

— Guo Xiang

“The effort whites put into observing racial etiquette has been demonstrated in the laboratory.”

— Jared Taylor

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white…

— Barack Obama

The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those…

— Ken Hutcherson

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and…

— Martin Jacques

Unknown to self, greedy to get, so are we human, living in unrest. Searching outer scenes, and search lie within, unaware,indifferent to…

— Senoraroy

Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I…

— Ayo Edebiri

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why…

— Sarah Lacy

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel…

— Chris Rock

People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how…

— Van Jones

I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the…

— Tao Lin

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified…

— Henry A. Wallace

“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people…

— Aaron B. Powell

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other,…

— James Baldwin

Personally (and I believe I can speak for my sisters on this), I am against any organization or individual who believes they…

— John Carter Cash

How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and…

— Nelson Mandela

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,…

— William Julius Wilson

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

— Jasper Fforde

“When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

— Patrisse Cullors

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

— Malcolm X

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

— Jennifer Granholm

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

— Angela Y. Davis

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

— Mohsin Hamid

I grew up in Northern California, all I ever did was race and that's all I was focused on.

— Kyle Larson

Hating someone just because of their skin colour is like saying u hate candy because of the wrapper!!!

— Sarah Moores

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

— Steve Mitchell

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

— R. Buckminster Fuller