Racism Quotes · Page 102

“1. The Amazing Race 2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans 3. Oh. (Joe O'Neill, from Opium)”

— Dave Eggers

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

— George Wallace

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

— Nate Parker

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

— Al Sharpton

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

— Steve Earle

It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to…

— Heather Mac Donald

Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of…

— Immortal Technique

We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be…

— Kemi Badenoch

As in many British organisations, subtle institutionalised discrimination may well prevail. But in all my time in the army I've never experienced…

— Clive Lewis

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and…

— Dr. Dre

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they…

— Nadine Gordimer

All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are…

— R.J. Rushdoony

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin

Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor…

— Dennis Kucinich

“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present…

— James Baldwin

“If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it…

— William Saroyan

“Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.…

— William Shakespeare

Woke supremacy' ranks up there with that tired crutch of the right known as 'cancel culture.' The purpose of both phrases is…

— Jonathan Capehart

“Can people of color be racist?” I reply, “The answer depends on your definition of racism.” If one defines racism as racial…

— Paula S. Rothenberg

The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we…

— Douglas Valentine

“I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the…

— Audre Lorde

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

— Bill Moyers

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

— Richard M. Weaver

The biggest problem throughout the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly

— Erik Hansen

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

— Dov Davidoff

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

— Naomi Alderman

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

— Adam Fletcher

“For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end…

— Assata Shakur

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

— James A. Baldwin

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

— David Duke

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

— Elie Wiesel

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

— Sterling K. Brown

“Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.”

— Shesh Nath Vernwal