Racism Quotes · Page 117

Racism that would be called out if it were directed against any other minority is explained away or ignored when it comes…

— Suella Braverman

I had Benzes 'fore you had braces. The all black Maybach but I'm not a racist.

— Jay Z

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

— H. Rap Brown

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls…

— Amrita Rao

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

— Robert E. Sherwood

There has never been even a hint of an expression of racism in the national team.

— Joachim Low

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that…

— Carson McCullers

The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's…

— William S. Burroughs

Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role.…

— Maya Moore

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again…

— Shelby Steele

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty…

— George Ryan

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with…

— Bryce Courtenay

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race…

— Kelly Miller

“Forget the world, forget civilization, forget all those pompous ideas of progress and global goals, simply take a stand in your vicinity,…

— Abhijit Naskar

The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something…

— Nina Bawden

“Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro,…

— Michael S. Kimmel

“Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself…

— George Carlin

Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling…

— Dinty W. Moore

“The dependence on the physical often occurs because many black men feel (rightfully or wrongfully) that they are not privy to the…

— Ricky L. Jones

A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will…

— William Golding

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

— George Saunders

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

— Maya Angelou

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

— Cornel West

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.

— Ash Sarkar

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

— Margaret Sanger

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross

“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.”

— Paul Kengor

“Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?”

— Steven E. Landsburg

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

— Jenny Zhang

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

— Rand Paul

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Racism will go away when people stop giving in to those who cry racism when they don't get their way!

— Sarah Moores

There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.

— Dan Schulman

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

— Peter Steele

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

— Luciana Berger