Racism Quotes · Page 78

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

— Frank Zappa

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

— Pat Nixon

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part…

— Immanuel Kant

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

— Geoff Rickly

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

— Jane Russell

“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”

— Lesley Kagen

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

— Gordon Allport

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you…

— Desmond Tutu

To focus on what makes us different, whether that's race, gender or religion, rather than what we have in common, has never…

— Leslyn Lewis

Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that…

— Maya Wiley

I got into the race because I'm concerned for my children, and for the opportunities they don't have. Really, it's for the…

— Jim Renacci

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of…

— Alice Walker

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are…

— Hugh Sidey

Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across…

— Robin DiAngelo

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very…

— Pramila Jayapal

“If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is…

— Timothy Keller

“Prejudice and Bias The gospel presents the contrasting images of the log versus the splinter (v. 41). Any truly wise teacher or…

— Richard Sklba

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have…

— Frantz Fanon

“I predict a bad end for your race, humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and…

— Anonymous

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

— Dave Chappelle

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of…

— Chuka Umunna

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

— Rhiannon Giddens

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

— Nicolas Malebranche

“Discrimination hinders people from finding community, and it robs the Church of the tremendous gifts that diversity brings.”

— John Pavlovitz

“These southern workers were more interested in protecting their prejudices than their interests.”

— Fred Erwin Beal

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

— Anonymous

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,…

— Dan Aykroyd

“You must dismantle your sources, Toc the Younger, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.”

— Steven Erikson

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

— Harry S. Truman

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end…

— Assata Shakur

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

— David Duke

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

— James A. Baldwin

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

— Elie Wiesel

“Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.”

— Shesh Nath Vernwal