Racism Quotes · Page 156

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

— Assata Shakur

I think a lot of people are clueless about the degree of hatred of whites.

— Heather Mac Donald

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

— Joanna Noelle Levesque

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

— Nina Simone

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

— Nikita Thukral

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

— Gore Vidal

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Frankly, I don’t even see color. I mean, the only race that matters is the human one, right?” Her”

— Jodi Picoult

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in…

— Cornel West

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into…

— Maya Angelou

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on…

— Ben Rhodes

Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."…

— Bernie Sanders

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and…

— Misha Green

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

“There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but then there's another story that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent…

— June Jordan

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…

— Michelle Alexander

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the…

— Malcolm X

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she…

— Maya Angelou

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In…

— Patricia Hill Collins

I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations…

— Rod Serling

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners…

— Mary Pilon

“Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

— Nadine Gordimer

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

— Christopher Hitchens

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

“Stereotyped prejudices, fine to right made, they spoil my stomach.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less,…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”

— Terry Pratchett

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

— Chance The Rapper

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

— Maya Angelou

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

— Aberjhani

“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in…

— Lance Armstrong

Racism needs to be eliminated, ignorance educated and opportunities created.

— Simon Jordan

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

— Norman Podhoretz

In the final analysis of your life, you won't be asked about the colour of your skin - but about the content…

— Nushra

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

— Danny DeVito