Racism Quotes · Page 79

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people…

— Cornel West

We say it all the time: the leftist media is inciting violence and hate by calling everybody a racist and a white…

— Candace Owens

Being black does not constitute that your mind is also blank. You happen to be labeled black.

— Wilson Khashane Msendevu

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

— Bob Beckel

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

— Leslie Fiedler

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

— Alice Walker

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under…

— Robin DiAngelo

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

— Huey Newton

Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for…

— Ritchie Torres

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King…

— Jonathan Kozol

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws…

— Matteo Salvini

“In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and…

— Abhijit Naskar

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to…

— Lee Hsien Loong

Isn't it ironic that the same people that supposedly hate racism are sometimes the same people that can't stand interracial relationships.

— Anonymous

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept…

— W. Kamau Bell

Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and…

— Justin Simien

“Black anti-semitism is a form of underdog resentment and envy, directed at another underdog who has made it in American society. The…

— Cornel West

Black Privilege is a unearned right given to black americans and they were taught to ignore it so it wouldn't cause any…

— Daryl Jones

Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat…

— Tao Lin

“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their “proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but out…

— Malcolm X

“We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in…

— Craig Werner

There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be…

— Louis Farrakhan

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it…

— David Olusoga

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

— Jack Kemp

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

— Sydney J. Harris

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

— Carl Hart

“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Anti-racism is one of our central values and there was a time not long ago when the left actively confronted anti-Semitism.

— Luciana Berger

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

— Geoff Rickly

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

— Pat Nixon

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part…

— Immanuel Kant

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

— Frank Zappa

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”

— Lesley Kagen

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

— Jane Russell

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

— Rhiannon Giddens