Racism Quotes · Page 74

“Let our disputes be increasingly defined by the limits of our reason rather than by the extent of our bigotry.”

— Steve Harvey

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

— Muhammad Ali

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

— Greg Gutfeld

“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.”

— Zenna Henderson

“We may be half-Filipino, but the other half is pure, unadulterated racist.”

— Robin Lim

“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

— Henry Clay

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

“repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people,”

— James W. Loewen

“It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this…

— Michelle Horst

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had…

— Donald Trump

To me, race is the single most divisive factor affecting American society. It's an issue that we are afraid of, that we…

— Ron Stallworth

What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and…

— Ralph Wiley

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which…

— Cynthia McKinney

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it…

— Bob the Drag Queen

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be…

— Tyra Banks

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,…

— Audre Lorde

“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among…

— Opal Tometi

“Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.…

— Philip K. Dick

In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism:…

— Anthea Butler

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore…

— John Stuart Mill

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

— Alvin Ailey

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

— Robert E. Howard

Martin Luther King Jr. would say love not hate would make America great.

— Martin Luther King III

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

— Kristen Stewart

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

A racist will be a racist and football is a cross-section of the male population of society.

— David James

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

— Don Marquis

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

— Pearl Cleage

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

— Harvey Milk

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

— Azzedine Alaia

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

— Corey Stewart

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

— Amelia Bloomer

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

— Herman Melville