Racism Quotes · Page 147

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

— Ida B. Wells

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

— Phil Gramm

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

— John Prendergast

Of course some people who oppose mass migration are racists, but then so are some of the people who support it.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

We should see ourself as a panda, Their white their black and also their asian.

— Axel

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

— Mary Hays

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic…

— August Wilson

I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line,…

— Ed Bearss

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware…

— John Howard Griffin

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she…

— James Earl Jones

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost…

— Malcolm X

I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their…

— Patrisse Cullors

At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on…

— Dessa Darling

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the…

— Al Sharpton

The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary…

— Chris Christie

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as…

— Hannah Arendt

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who…

— Malcolm X

I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any…

— Geert Wilders

You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this…

— Charlamagne Tha God

“Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience…

— Susan Nathan

“Progress is our most important product, General Electric says, and I had progressed to the front door of hell when all I…

— Charles Stevenson Wright

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

— Bob Beckel

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

— Malcolm X

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

— Jess Row

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.

— Alan Wilson

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

— Adam Schiff

Any person who thinks they're superior to others because of the color of their skin is an idiot. Yeah I said it.…

— Anonymous

Racism is something that is taught. We, as a people, need to work to get past that.

— Booker T

A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.

— Ron Kaufman

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

— John Lennon

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

— Dorothy Height

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

— Bertrand Russell