Racism Quotes · Page 82

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

— Jane Elliott

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

— Charles Barkley

“We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

“I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.”

— Harper Lee

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In the race of life, the Person leading is the Enemy of All those coming Behind.”

— Ademiju Ige

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so…

— Clint Eastwood

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use…

— David Dinkins

Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.…

— Shelby Steele

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces…

— James A. Baldwin

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us…

— Paula Rothenberg

It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand…

— John Lewis

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

How in the world do you get mad at somebody for wanting to be black? That's something for which you should get…

— Rush Limbaugh

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look…

— Vince Staples

Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot…

— James Meredith

“Trump,” she declared, to a multicultural audience at a community college, “is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his…

— Joshua Green

All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,…

— Arthur Bryant

“In the early years of contemporary feminist movement, solidarity between women was often equated with the formation of "safe" spaces where groups…

— bell hooks

We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that…

— June Jordan

The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature…

— Swami Vivekananda

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

— Colson Whitehead

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

— Paul Singer

White people stole jazz, rock n' roll, Will Smith, and heart disease.

— Tracy Morgan

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to…

— Jordan Peele

We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

— W. Kamau Bell

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

“So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.”

— Sun Yung Shin

Racism. One example is when the white iPhone is more expensive than the black.

— Anonymous

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

— Sterling K. Brown

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

— Dan Millman

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

— Tony Evans

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree…

— Alan Dershowitz

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

— Malcolm X