Racism Quotes · Page 85

Terrorists and the divine forces that innocent men, women and children, race, creed, religion kills without discrimination

— Mak_786

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

— Logan Browning

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person...

— Barack Obama

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

— Coretta Scott King

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

— Marcus Smart

People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.

— Franchesca Ramsey

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

— Robin DiAngelo

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.

— Martin Luther King III

Why be racist when we all bleed the same color? Why judge when we haven't even got to really know eachother? Discrimination…

— Anonymous

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at…

— Michael C Dawson

“a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe…

— George Orwell

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion…

— Big Sean

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country…

— Medgar Evers

Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight…

— Fred Hampton

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom…

— Malcolm X

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations…

— Kerry James Marshall

I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After…

— David Oyelowo

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings…

— Terry Brooks

“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped…

— Robin DiAngelo

“Interestingly, this was the only incident of blatant prejudice that I can remember. But I am aware that such opinions exist in…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the…

— Jeremy Griffith

“Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

— Bayard Rustin

“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

— Prentice Mulford

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”

— Adlai Stevenson

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

— Michael Crichton

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

— Shirley Chisholm

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I…

— Octavia E. Butler

We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.

— Geert Wilders

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

— Eddie Griffin

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

— Cary Kennedy

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

— Lexi Alexander

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country…

— Fred Hampton