Racism Quotes · Page 83

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

— Margaret Sanger

During the race there's only so much you can do. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

— Caeleb Dressel

That race you feel you are a part of is happening only in your mind.

— Ryron Gracie

I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.

— Sadiq Khan

“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

— Shirley Chisholm

There's been an obvious shift in that it is now uncomfortable for a white actor to black up.

— Adrian Lester

It's weird being mixed race, people never talk about the white side, they always talk about the black side.

— Miquita Oliver

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage…

— Roberto Firmino

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address…

— Jemele Hill

Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly…

— H. A. Guerber

There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the…

— Jeremiah Wright

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's…

— Elvis Mitchell

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to…

— Emily Murphy

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others…

— Mike Pence

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived…

— Alicia Garza

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist:…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks…

— John Howard Griffin

330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear…

— Mike Pence

“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s…

— Melinda Gates

Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging,…

— Paul Kivel

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America…

— Don Yaeger

“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“How far the gentlemen of dark complexion will get with their independence, now that they have declared it, I don’t know. There…

— H.L. Mencken

All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives…

— Quavo

As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look…

— Larry Wilmore

We have a rich tradition when it comes to Black folk... using their influence to effectuate real change.

— Jasmine Crockett

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

— Frederick Douglass

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

— Frederick Lenz

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

— Demi Moore

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

— Eminem

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

— Charles Barkley

“We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

— Jane Elliott

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

— Henry L. Stimson

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

— Holly Hunter

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone