Racism Quotes · Page 133

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

— Vera Caspary

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

— H. Rap Brown

Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them.

— Anonymous

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

— Assata Shakur

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

— Ezra Koenig

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

— William J. Brennan

The 99 percent of those people who voted for Donald Trump are not Alt-righters. They are not racists. They've never even heard…

— Glenn Beck

Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better…

— Bernie Sanders

For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness…

— Robin DiAngelo

Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because…

— Andrea Navedo

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address…

— Rhiannon Giddens

The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And…

— Tim Wise

“Interestingly, this was the only incident of blatant prejudice that I can remember. But I am aware that such opinions exist in…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the…

— Jeremy Griffith

I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by…

— Kristin Hunter

“Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Wallace, Goldwater, and Nixon recognized and sought to take advantage of existing bigotry in the voting public, bigotry they did not create…

— Ian Haney López

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some…

— Jesse Williams

If we're united, I wouldn't care about a White school board getting me a little something. The hell with the school board;…

— Louis Farrakhan

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some…

— Barack Obama

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is…

— Assata Shakur

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

— Sarah Louise Delany

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

— Joey Skaggs

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

— John Stuart Mill

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.

— Kemi Badenoch

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important…

— Curtis Mayfield

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

— Dolores Huerta

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

— Charles Barkley

“If you travel for years in an integrated band, you see racism in action.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

There's not a single job in the world where you deserve to be criticized with racism.

— Jude Bellingham

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

— Liz Cambage