Racism Quotes · Page 116

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

— Rajendra Punde

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

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

— Skai Jackson

Fools say that all black people are alike but I believe that fools are the only ones who are all alike

— Nadim K9 Kanaan

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

— Roger Ross Williams

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

— Constance Baker Motley

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

— Bayard Rustin

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

— Christopher Lasch

We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure…

— Malala Yousafzai

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a…

— Maya Angelou

Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.

— Jacky Rosen

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at…

— Lena Horne

“it is embarrassing for Coca-Cola to be located in a city that refuses to honor its Nobel Prize winner. We are an…

— J Paul Austin

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this…

— Monica Crowley

“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to…

— Audre Lorde

New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask…

— Chief Joseph

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in…

— Michelle Alexander

I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their…

— Muhammad Ali

“To all my friends who constantly talk disparagingly about the supposed 'homosexual lifestyle' and stereotype gay people and the community, I'd like…

— Anthony Venn-Brown

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no…

— Tim Wise

“What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge?…

— David Mitchell

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

— Deepak Chopra

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a…

— Steven Wright

“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?”

— Kate Atkinson

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

— Joe Thomas

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

— Mercedes Lackey

I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

— Melanie Brown

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by…

— Coretta Scott King

Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well.

— Munira Mirza

“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”

— Bryan Sykes

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I…

— Erykah Badu

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and…

— William Faulkner

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

— Kathleen Sebelius

The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism.…

— Gregg Wallace

3 things that I'm extremely allergic to: Racism, Poverty and Bull-shit.

— London Mond