Racism Quotes · Page 130

“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”

— Sondra Perl

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

— Steven Biko

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

— Eric Liu

For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“Is the fear that he is white or an athlete? Because what it comes down to is men will do what they…

— Toye Lawson Brown

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

— Robert Hood

I've been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces. Ah hell I even fuck with different races.

— Lil Kim

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a…

— Nicholas Kristof

Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not…

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same…

— Jim Goad

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and…

— Sonny Rollins

Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong.…

— Nate Parker

I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me.…

— James Peterson

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation…

— Kofi Annan

You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races."…

— Jim Goad

Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive.…

— Chris Abani

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

“Many people have asked me recently what I make of all the workplaces who were so quick to roll back on their…

— Louis Yako

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And…

— Yoko Ono

In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list…

— Sabina Murray

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture…

— Benjamin Jealous

Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High…

— David Brooks

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

— Heather Mac Donald

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any…

— Walter Cronkite

If you are that upset with it being used by people not of color, stop using it yourself.

— Anonymous

“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

— Amiri Baraka

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

— P. T. Barnum

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

— William Hazlitt

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

— Phil Scott

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

— Robin DiAngelo

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

— Adwoa Aboah

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

“The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates