Racism Quotes · Page 112

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

— Mark Foster

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

— Tim Wise

There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage.

— Justin Simien

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

— Geronimo

I've been in a male dominated industry my entire life, and I've seen that discrimination every industry that I've been in.

— Nancy Mace

[ Tucker Carlson] thought that was the paramount example of discrimination and bigotry and all of these buzzwords these people use.

— Rush Limbaugh

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

— Bernice King

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

— Ralph Abernathy

People wouldn't have to hide their true selves - there would be no lines, no walls built, no prejudices against where people…

— Innah Delos Angeles

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is…

— Bernice Sandler

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of…

— Chrissie Hynde

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood…

— Stokely Carmichael

“Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. Ironically,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a…

— Pauline Hanson

Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to…

— Kerry Washington

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have…

— David Henry Hwang

“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially,…

— Rick Riordan

“Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps…

— Connie Willis

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew…

— Kanye West

"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to…

— Dean Spade

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could…

— Shaun King

All people, all cultures have some sort of racism. It's a cultural thing and I think that part of the issue is…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

— Park Won-soon

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

— Hasan M. Elahi

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg

In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.

— Misha Green

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

— Barbra Streisand

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

— Ruby Bridges

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

— Abraham Maslow

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

— Miles Davis

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

— Ruby Bridges

“It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.”

— peter adejimi

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

— Suzanne de Passe

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that…

— Halle Berry

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

— Bobby Seale

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

— Steven Erikson

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

— Whoopi Goldberg