Racism Quotes · Page 120

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

— Barack Obama

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

— David Olusoga

“Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.”

— Michael Chabon

I recognize one thing about pain...It knows no color, it knows no religion, it is not prejudice. Pain is just pain.

— Juanita Bynum

“you can’t find a white guy who can amass the rudimentary requirements needed to be hired as a local mover.”

— Finn Murphy

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

— Pat Parker

“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.”

— Jared Taylor

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of…

— Rosa Parks

“For ages anthropologists lumped all African peoples into one ‘race,’ but the genetic truth is that the larger world’s diversity is more…

— Sam Kean

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know…

— Mark Twain

To be raised as a man of color in America - especially a black man, and particularly a very dark black man…

— Cord Jefferson

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or…

— Andrew Solomon

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming…

— Muhammad Ali

You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race. The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews. It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical.…

— Nas

There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of…

— June Jordan

It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to…

— Cornel West

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have…

— Malcolm X

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that “their griefs are transient.” American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are “mud people”…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have met people who truly do not believe in God, and they feel no anger when they see suffering. They are…

— Lynn Austin

“Beloved, there is something black folk fear, whether you can see it or not, whether some of us black folk will say…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant…

— Manal al-Sharif

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

— Mariah Carey

To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.

— Nina Simone

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

— Taylor Branch

“Eventually, this black leadership pressured and negotiated independence for Nigeria, beginning in 1960.”

— Thomas Sowell

“We want freedom,' I say. 'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.”

— Angie Thomas

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

— Kendrick Sampson

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

— Alfred von Tirpitz

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

— Rostam Batmanglij

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

— Jalal Talabani

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

— James Weldon Johnson

“Nor is there the same pressure on blacks when they talk insultingly about whites.”

— Jared Taylor

Too many Black lives have been lost to injustice and brutality in this country.

— Sharice Davids

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

— Malcolm X

People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.

— Michael Gerber

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have…

— Colson Whitehead

Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.

— Andy Mineo