Racism Quotes · Page 115

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

— Reba Hurn

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for…

— Toi Derricotte

We need all races of men, and decent women, to stand up for what's right, drop anger, and live upright.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in…

— Derek Walcott

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

— A. A. Gill

We do not stand for racism on the pitch, in society or anywhere else it rears its ugly head.

— Troy Deeney

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should…

— Jared Taylor

Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world…

— Erwin McManus

“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

— DaShanne Stokes

When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there…

— Alicia Garza

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that…

— Gloria Steinem

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep…

— Morgan Freeman

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people…

— Daniel Barenboim

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is…

— Jonathan Coleman

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand…

— Cebo Campbell

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored.…

— Nicholas Johnson

Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that…

— Yolanda King

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains.…

— Daryl Davis

I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

— Michelle Alexander

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

— Barack Obama

“But the majority will continue to insist—speaking metaphorically—that black is white, and after a period of exasperation, irritation, even anger, certainly incomprehension,…

— Doris Lessing

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

— Valerie Jarrett

I think deep down my brother or my dad wouldn't like me to race but it's what I love, it's what I…

— Nicolas Hamilton

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

— Constance Baker Motley

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

— Nicole Byer

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

— Carter G. Woodson

“Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.”

— Victoria E. Bynum

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know,…

— Big Daddy Kane

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

— Rand Paul

A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man…

— Langston Hughes

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

— Bell Hooks

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Angela Stanton-King

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

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

— Celeste Ng

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

— bell hooks