Racism Quotes · Page 77

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism…

— Aaron Dessner

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

— Joel Osteen

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

— Michael Ealy

“And just because a person is pro black doesn’t mean they are racist.”

— Rod Ballard

I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's…

— Bozoma Saint John

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I'm saying us - our culture, our race, our people - we need to do better.

— YG

“What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as…

— Barack Obama

But when a black player calls a white owner a slave master that's dangerous. It's one thing to say an owner is…

— Larry Johnson

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came…

— Robert Reich

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness…

— Kerry James Marshall

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions…

— Theaster Gates

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours.…

— LeCrae

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they…

— Michael Eric Dyson

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

“It is not, I think, a question of when and how the white people will "free" the black and the red people.…

— Wendell Berry

“The Misery Merchants tell us, for example, that most blacks are poor. In fact, only one in four black families is poor,…

— Tammy Bruce

After George Floyd's murder, we had a conversation on our podcast where the underlying message was about being empathetic. We wanted people…

— Big E

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith…

— Anonymous

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent…

— Anonymous

“The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to…

— Trevor Noah

I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago…

— Bernie Sanders

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

— Ross Douthat

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the…

— Brock Chisholm

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race…

— Abraham Lincoln

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

— Cornel West

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks…

— Alice Walker

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

— Harper Lee

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the…

— Dana Gould

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

— Sydney J. Harris

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

— Jack Kemp

Anti-racism is one of our central values and there was a time not long ago when the left actively confronted anti-Semitism.

— Luciana Berger

“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

— Carl Hart

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates