Racism Quotes · Page 150

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

— John Lewis

All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis…

— Michael J. Knowles

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

— Constance Baker Motley

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to…

— Susanna Tamaro

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

— Huey Newton

I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Me and my sisters never saw race as a limitation on what we wanted to achieve... One thing we were doing were…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as…

— Henry Louis Gates

If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and…

— Muhammad Ali

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media…

— Chuck D

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary…

— Jim Goad

If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare…

— Wallace Thurman

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of…

— Winston Churchill

Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all…

— Tom Morello

“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in…

— Malcolm X

“How many times had she jumped on Dirk’s case for uttering a racial slur, a sexist remark, an unkind observation about someone…

— G.A. McKevett

To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to…

— Assata Shakur

“I remembered how tough it was getting black people in large tenements to come together to build a playground. The enemy was…

— Junius Williams

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as…

— James Baldwin

“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with…

— Adam Serwer

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with…

— Mario Balotelli

Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the '50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings…

— Dante Basco

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,”

— James D. Sass

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

— David Bowie

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

— Zozibini Tunzi

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

— Orson Welles

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

— Bret Stephens

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

— Harry Lennix

When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it.

— Brad Paisley

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We…

— Snoop Dogg

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

— Evan Sayet

Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.

— Kenny Smith

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

— Lily Yeh

While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.

— Seiji Maehara

Why is racism still a conversation in 2020? We are all one. It hurts me. It upsets me.

— Patrick van Aanholt

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

— Dalai Lama