Racism Quotes · Page 134

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter…

— Bernard Goldberg

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

— Kyler Murray

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?

— Donald Sterling

“We need a change of attitude, because let's face it, no one’s going to change color”

— Jaco Strydom

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

— Muhammad Ali

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

— David Lammy

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

— Gerry Spence

Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long…

— Charlamagne tha God

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most…

— J. Philippe Rushton

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of…

— Jeremy Clarkson

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to…

— Dorothy Day

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely…

— Norman Granz

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part…

— Claudette Colvin

In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person…

— Wunmi Mosaku

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our…

— Jonathan Kozol

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee…

— Van Jones

“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions…

— American Anthropological Association

“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In…

— Shelby Foote

“But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation…

— Jonathan Kozol

“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is…

— Frantz Fanon

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with…

— Bocafloja

“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although…

— Franklin Foer

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

— Jack Kornfield

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or…

— Adrienne Rich

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

— Michael Jackson

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

— Russell Peters

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

— Taboo

There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.

— Kevin Young

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

— Alice Childress

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

— Rebecca Solnit

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will…

— Fabian Cancellara

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

— Aldous Huxley

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

— Ras Baraka

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.

— Nelson Mandela

I hope Spain can evolve and understand the seriousness of insulting someone because of their skin colour.

— Vinicius Junior