Racism Quotes · Page 93

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

— Tariq Ramadan

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality...

— John Hume

Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.

— Derrick Grayson

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

“...[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.”

— Howard Zinn

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“Discrimination is training in not identifying or empathizing with someone because they are different in some way, in believing the differences mean…

— Rebecca Solnit

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -…

— Hal Duncan

There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally,…

— KRS-One

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing…

— Anonymous

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to…

— Ruth Smeeth

First thing is first and let me be clear: I stand with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. There is no room…

— Zdeno Chara

Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly,…

— Ron Stallworth

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white…

— Charles Barkley

“San Franciscans would have sworn on the Golden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their air-conditioned city. But…

— Maya Angelou

Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the…

— Huey Newton

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other race. Race pride is…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength -…

— Malcolm X

I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought…

— Ronny Chieng

The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

— Richard Le Gallienne

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

— Mellody Hobson

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

— Sarah McBride

“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.”

— Angie Thomas

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

— Ingrid Newkirk

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

— Anonymous

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

— Tim Reid

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

— Michelle Alexander

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all…

— Jay-Z

“Having been made so much inferior to caucasians makes us to glorify yellow bones”

— Thabiso Monkoe