Racism Quotes · Page 71

'I Am Singh' is primarily about mistaken identities that led to racism post the 9/11 attacks.

— Puneet Issar

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.

— Kane Brown

Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.

— Betsy DeVos

“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.”

— Whitney Otto

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

— Jonathan Swift

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think that President Donald Trump has clearly not just said racist things, but is a racist.

— Ben Ray Lujan

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

— Gordon Allport

“In many ways, a race is analogous to life itself. Once it is over, it can not be re-created. All that is…

— Chris Lear

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color,…

— George Washington Carver

“In a world that has essentially turned away from racism, it is shocking to me that the color of the skin of…

— Brian Yap

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from…

— Sidney Blumenthal

The far Right's identity politics are the mirror image of that dominant left-wing ideology, which sees the world exclusively through the lens…

— Heather Mac Donald

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is…

— Bernice Sandler

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood,…

— Everett Dirksen

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

When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over…

— Clint Smith

My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen,…

— Denzel Washington

“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure…

— Benito Mussolini

“Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when…

— David Henry Hwang

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know…

— Claudette Colvin

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most…

— Jacques Barzun

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

— Walter Scott

One cannot be against racism, one cannot be against sexism, unless one is against capitalism.

— Anonymous

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

— Sir Fulke Greville

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

— Luther Burbank

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

— Michael Jackson

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

— Heather Mac Donald

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

— Harry Reid

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

— Samuel Johnson

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us.

— Jamaal Bowman

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

— Kara Walker

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

— Mehdi Hasan

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

— Pam Bondi

You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

— Maurice Greene

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

— Stuart Hall