Racism Quotes · Page 155

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

— Walter E. Williams

It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.

— Mase

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

— Anderson Silva

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

— Megan Rapinoe

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

— Frank Robinson

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

— Andrew Aydin

“Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made…

— Joel Stein

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right…

— William Hazlitt

Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie…

— Gerry Spence

“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears…

— Rene Girard

Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to…

— Martin Luther King Jr

We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…

— Lewis Hyde

“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're…

— Scaachi Koul

“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy…

— bell hooks

I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That…

— Jeff Sessions

Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable…

— Opal Tometi

In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African…

— Tariq Ramadan

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -…

— Malcolm X

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different…

— Russell Peters

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters…

— Ronald Reagan

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

— Pearl S. Buck

Life is a race... winning and losing is a part of it and you gotta accept it. so you'll grow.

— Missyrie

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

— Trevor Paglen

Being labeled a racist has hurt the most, but I brought that on myself.

— Kyle Larson

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

— Nicholas D. Kristof

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

— Dennis Prager

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white…

— Daryl Hall

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

— Lonnie Johnson

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists…

— Thomas Sowell

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

— Richard Pryor

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

— Andre Gide

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

— Anais Nin

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

— Stokely Carmichael