Racism Quotes · Page 58

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

— Dan O'Brien

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

— Macklemore

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

— Joely Fisher

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

— Rick Santorum

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

— Marlene Dietrich

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

— Lenny Kravitz

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

— Larry Wilmore

The history of Black Americans in South Carolina is riddled with trials and tribulations.

— Jaime Harrison

Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people

— Tom Tancredo

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

— Ben Hecht

“When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”

— Connor Franta

When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it…

— Kameron Hurley

“P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to…

— Henry Louis Gates

I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying…

— Kalvin Phillips

Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs…

— Ayana Mathis

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious…

— Chris Christie

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I…

— Issa Rae

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America…

— Tavis Smiley

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of…

— Lester Holt

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to…

— Newt Gingrich

“When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense…

— Ralph Ellison

“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the…

— Ann Petry

Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most…

— Michael C Dawson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and…

— Anonymous

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up…

— Christine Lagarde

“Sexual distortions carry strong undertones of prejudice—sexism, racism and homophobia—that rob individuals of their individuality. Common stereotypes include “men are all dogs,”…

— Alexandra Katehakis

When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has…

— Pankaj Mishra

“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

— Mark Zuckerberg

“I think they are a better race than humans ever were.”

— Angelo Tsanatelis

When I came into this industry, was there racism? Yes.

— Jay Sean

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

— Voltaire

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

— Barry Jenkins

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally.”

— W.C. Fields

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

— Gloria Steinem