Racism Quotes · Page 75

I love it when some people say they want racial equality, but still lock their car doors when an African American walks…

— Anonymous

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

— Lil B

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national…

— Branch Rickey

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“And just because a person is pro black doesn’t mean they are racist.”

— Rod Ballard

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

— Michael Ealy

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism…

— Aaron Dessner

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some…

— Lewis Grizzard

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just…

— Burning Spear

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not…

— Malcolm X

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone…

— Sandra Bullock

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the…

— Malcolm X

I focused on jobs. I built private sector jobs all my life. That's what the race was about. Who was going to…

— Rick Scott

There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around…

— Gareth Southgate

Patriotism can only flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot…

— Johannes Rau

“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral…

— Ayn Rand

“Human colour is the colour I'm truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the…

— Salena Godden

The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you…

— Malcolm X

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

— Joel Osteen

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the…

— Brock Chisholm

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

— Ross Douthat

I'm saying us - our culture, our race, our people - we need to do better.

— YG

I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's…

— Bozoma Saint John

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks…

— Alice Walker

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

— Cornel West

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race…

— Abraham Lincoln

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the…

— Dana Gould

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

— Harper Lee

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

— Michael Jackson

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

— Noel Ignatiev

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

— Dahlia Lithwick