Racism Quotes · Page 79

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

— Sterling K. Brown

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

— Lillian Smith

I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore…

— Neill Blomkamp

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

— John Derbyshire

Opinions do not constitute racism, nor does the way you treat a friend make you a racist.

— Phaedra Parks

“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“In division others see opportunity, In division I see suffering. In love it does not exist.”

— johnjwillard

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though…

— Earl Warren

Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black…

— Reggie Jackson

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there…

— Carol Anderson

Anita Hill has changed the history of how we deal with each other in the workplace. But it also was an interesting…

— Rick Famuyiwa

“The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for…

— Israelmore Ayivor

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had…

— Donald Trump

“It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this…

— Michelle Horst

I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among…

— Opal Tometi

“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around…

— Ibram X. Kendi

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,…

— Audre Lorde

“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”…

— GaryLFrancione

As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were…

— Alice Schwarzer

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races,…

— James Fox

In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism:…

— Anthea Butler

“Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.”

— Winsome Campbell-Green

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

— Miroslav Volf

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

— Terry Crews

Conservatives do not oppose affirmative action because they are crypto-racists.

— Norah Vincent

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.

— Deeyah Khan

“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can’t enter a restroom.”

— Ken Follett

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

— Luther Burbank

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

— Ronnie Wood

“Any white man with half a brain in America can make a good living if he really wants to”

— Matthew Quick

“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”

— Augustine of Hippo

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and…

— Newt Gingrich

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

— Luciana Berger