Racism Quotes · Page 81

“I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.”

— Harper Lee

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

— W. Kamau Bell

White people stole jazz, rock n' roll, Will Smith, and heart disease.

— Tracy Morgan

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

— Paul Singer

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to…

— Jordan Peele

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

— Dan Millman

I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from…

— Assata Shakur

The fight against racial bias in society will not be won by hounding Liam Neeson or boycotting his films. It will be…

— John Barnes

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the…

— Joe Morton

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in…

— Nicholas Kristof

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-…

— Jesse Jackson

“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from…

— James T. Patterson

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in…

— Dick Gregory

“The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose…

— Michelle Alexander

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

“I noticed that a woman on Goodreads said something like, “I was reading along in the beginning thinking, okay, a woman wrote…

— Barbara Browning

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to…

— James Baldwin

Im happy to be black. I am what I am, Im doing very well in my life, and Im thankful to God…

— LL Cool J

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

— Sterling K. Brown

Racism. One example is when the white iPhone is more expensive than the black.

— Anonymous

“So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.”

— Sun Yung Shin

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

— Abraham Coles

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

— Malcolm X

I think we are progressing with race relations but assumptions hold us back.

— Rachel House

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

— Tony Evans

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree…

— Alan Dershowitz

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Heather Mac Donald

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

— Jose Marti

“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.”

— Abhijit Naskar

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

— Ron Dellums