Racism Quotes · Page 94

I do believe systemic racism is real. It's one of the main reasons I'm running for Congress.

— Angela Stanton-King

“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.”

— Celeste Ng

We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.

— Daryl Davis

“Develop a prejudice; find evidence to support it and you’d have made yourself a logically evaluated, arguable opinion.”

— Rajendra Punde

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

— bell hooks

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

— Skai Jackson

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

— Isaac Barrow

“She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.”

— BeBe Winans

I thought we were getting more liberal as a society, more inclusive and I'm gutted racism has come back stronger with Brexit,…

— Dawn O'Porter

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you…

— Tom Clancy

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive…

— Carl Hart

No matter what you call it, modern day racism comes to you in the guise of anti-racism and we have to start…

— Will Cain

It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were…

— Ncuti Gatwa

My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not…

— John Lewis

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not…

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is…

— Scott Simon

“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of…

— Hans Eysenck

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of…

— Clint Smith

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop.…

— Jimmy Carter

“The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And…

— James Baldwin

“If our neighbors were white, they’d be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet…

— Booker T. Washington

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia…

— Malcolm X

Obviously, I'm not not black. But this is one thing I do know after years and years of working with a lot…

— Skip Bayless

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

— Bobby Jindal

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

— Shirley Chisholm

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

— Barack Obama

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.

— James T Kirk

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

— Jimmy Carter

“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them you are invisible. – is”

— Nayyirah Waheed

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

— Demba Ba

I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.

— Maxime Bernier

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

— Shirley Chisholm

Before 'Race 3,' I had not done a role which required me to do action.

— Saqib Saleem

“There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

— Godfrey

“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.”

— Jared Taylor

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

— Freya Stark