Racism Quotes · Page 109

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

— Malcolm X

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

[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

We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume…

— Charlie Kirk

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound…

— Michael Moore

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of…

— David Olusoga

Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment.…

— Paul Ryan

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

We are all a little bit racist. White people, y'all are the first people to denounce it. I'm not racist. I'm incapable…

— Aries Spears

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury…

— Nellie L. McClung

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply…

— Aberjhani

The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a…

— John Howard

An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find…

— Strom Thurmond

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars…

— Chancellor Williams

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern…

— Booker T. Washington

“We pass hatred and prejudice on to our children, as though they were heirlooms of humanity. We cling to traditions that keep…

— L.M. Browning

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that…

— Malcolm X

When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your…

— Barack Obama

“There's no pride for me in my skin being white. I was born this way, I had no choice, I had no…

— T.J. Kirk

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

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Adam Fletcher

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

Mr. Luther King had a dream. Dreams are where Elmo and Toy Story had a party, and I went there. Yay, my…

— Ralph Wiggum

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the…

— Daryl Davis

There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

— Michelle Alexander

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

— Toni Morrison

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

— Ann Radcliffe

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

— Paloma Elsesser

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

— Tony Evans