Racism Quotes · Page 71

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

— Huey Newton

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

— Winona LaDuke

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

— Rick Warren

“It's so awful and sad,” she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, “to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.”

— Mary Norton

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

— F. Paul Wilson

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

— Ernest Dimnet

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

— James Earl Jones

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our…

— Rick Warren

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in…

— Patton Oswalt

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should…

— Jared Taylor

Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world…

— Erwin McManus

“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

— DaShanne Stokes

When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there…

— Alicia Garza

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that…

— Gloria Steinem

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep…

— Morgan Freeman

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…

— Milan Kundera

It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate…

— Thomas Dreier

The assumption that we can keep societies open and free to everybody is going to have to stop. We are going to…

— James M. Buchanan

“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so,…

— Stanisław Lem

“Whenever we go through a period of de-Americanization like what is currently affecting South Asians, Arabs, and Muslim Americans, a whole generation…

— Bill Ong Hing

The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to…

— Wentworth Miller

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's…

— Jordan Peele

“I may be slow, but I know a racist when I’m called one - and I am proud to support the supremacy…

— Bauvard

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

— George A. Sheehan

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s,

— Taylor Caldwell

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

— Patrisse Cullors

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

— J. B. Pritzker

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

— Josephine Lawrence

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

— Vivek Shraya

They have managed to make racism a crime in Brazil and that has meant that there are fewer cases.

— Vinicius Junior

“Life remains beautiful when we see it as a journey. It falls apart when we treat it as a race.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”

— Angie Thomas

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

— Jordan Peele

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

— Peggy McIntosh

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

BJP's ideology doesn't permit discrimination on the basis of caste, sect, or religion. Everyone born in India is equal for us.

— Rajnath Singh

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason

— John Wesley