Racism Quotes · Page 126

“Human Skin Colors Were Made For Identifications, Not For Discriminations...”

— Pedro Acevedo

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

— Nargis Fakhri

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a…

— Ashton Sanders

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

— Ephraim Mirvis

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

— Bobby Seale

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.'…

— Douglas Wilder

“Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community.…

— Stokely Carmichael

Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that…

— The D.O.C

Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist…

— Carl Bernstein

It's like do White privilege exist? Absolutely. In the case of passing judgment, you have to make sure that you're passing judgement…

— Big Daddy Kane

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law…

— Opal Tometi

“A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments…

— Timothy Snyder

Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,…

— Dick Gregory

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and…

— Myka 9

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States…

— Peggy McIntosh

“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and bees. Well, I didn't really…

— Angie Thomas

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't…

— John Edgar Wideman

“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the…

— Bell Hooks

“Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.”

— Jonathan Heatt

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

— Antonin Scalia

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

— W. Eugene Smith

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

— Jimmy Carter

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

— Kym Whitley

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

— Cher

Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.

— Betsy DeVos

Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.

— Ted Lieu

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

— Edgar Davids

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

— Joy Reid

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

— Gerda Lerner

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

— Laurence Overmire

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

— Dean Koontz

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

— Oprah Winfrey

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

— Pindar