Racism Quotes · Page 83

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I think we are progressing with race relations but assumptions hold us back.

— Rachel House

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

— Abraham Coles

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

— Jose Serrano

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

— David Remnick

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

— Ron Dellums

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

— Heather Mac Donald

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their…

— Steven Biko

I honestly realized that my dad was white when someone told me in middle school. They're like, 'Oh your dad's white?' I'm…

— Tamera Mowry

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither…

— Sarah Churchwell

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias,…

— Carter G. Woodson

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you…

— Dan Rather

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and…

— Octavia E. Butler

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a…

— Kendrick Meek

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women,…

— John Lewis

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the…

— Raoul Peck

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by…

— Gore Vidal

White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the…

— Cornel West

“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds…

— George Eliot

When someone makes a racist remark, that doesn't make him a racist, but you have to say, 'This the line. You've crossed…

— Edgar Davids

The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future…

— Michael Buble

“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

— Jose Marti

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money…

— Zoe Saldana

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

— Tommy Hilfiger

I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.

— Coretta Scott King

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

— Mark Twain

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.

— Tyson Gay

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

— Wesley Snipes

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

— Cornel West

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

— James A. Baldwin

If you separate the whites and the colored clothes during laundry, you're a racist.

— Nikhil Saluja

Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

— Randall L. Stephenson

Most Labour members are genuine anti-racists who oppose antisemitism.

— Clive Lewis