Racism Quotes · Page 129

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything…

— Celia Green

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

— Laurence Stallings

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

— Hasan Minhaj

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

— Caster Semenya

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the…

— Malcolm X

White liberals are the most racist people I've ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people…

— Madison Cawthorn

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably…

— Robert Kennedy

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time…

— Booker T. Washington

Bigotry and prejudice are not unique to groups that have held privilege, and ascribing views to entire groups rather than to specific…

— Kemi Badenoch

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm…

— Jesmyn Ward

The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced…

— Craig Seymour

I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in…

— Maxine Waters

There is only one race on this planet and that is the human race. There are many ethnic families and I believe…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Im happy to be black. I am what I am, Im doing very well in my life, and Im thankful to God…

— LL Cool J

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to…

— James Baldwin

I don't want to see trickle down racism. I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which…

— Mitt Romney

Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't…

— Antonio Cromartie

“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people,…

— Coretta Scott King

Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question…

— Shelby Steele

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

— Molly Ivins

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

— Stephen Vizinczey

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

— Bob Herbert

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

— Jaylen Brown

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

— Major Taylor

“Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt…

— Anonymous

Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted.

— Doctavius

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

— Gary Oldman

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

— Randall Robinson

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan