Racism Quotes · Page 85

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

— Rachel Dolezal

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

— Thurgood Marshall

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If non-white groups continue to advance race-based interests, is it wise for whites to continue to act as if they have none?”

— Jared Taylor

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

— Charles Lamb

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

— Bess Truman

We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.

— Misha Green

Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I wasn't the only person out there writing about pop culture and race, but I stayed true to my voice, and people…

— Luvvie Ajayi

For generations, the Jewish and African-American communities have stood together, helping each other overcome their greatest challenges and triumph in the face…

— Lee Zeldin

“It is not a race that can be won, a truth the brain-aware manic knows somewhere in his being and a truth…

— Eric Maisel

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional…

— Katherine Paterson

The Sewell Commission was an opportunity to move away from discussions of 'culture wars' towards a balanced, informed discussion about race and…

— Kemi Badenoch

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He…

— Walter Mosley

“The “b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian…

— Maya Angelou

The fight against racial bias in society will not be won by hounding Liam Neeson or boycotting his films. It will be…

— John Barnes

“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and bees. Well, I didn't really…

— Angie Thomas

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States…

— Peggy McIntosh

America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and…

— Myka 9

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,…

— Dick Gregory

“As I prepared to publish this book, a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia took place. One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed…

— Darcy Burke

“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the…

— Bell Hooks

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't…

— John Edgar Wideman

I want everybody to be blacker. Start talking black at work. You ain't gotta change your voice at work anymore.

— Deon Cole

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

— Tim Wise

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

— Angela Davis

When today’s race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

— Harry Gant

Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error

— Robert Hall

There are certain things black people just don't do, OK? Skiing is one of them.

— Reggie Miller

The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.

— Francesca Lia Block

“When the racism involves in education, the learning outcome will be like the torch without light”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

While growing up, I actually thought people didn't care what color you were. Racism is history, but it's real.

— Randall Cunningham

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

— DeAndre Hopkins

“His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.”

— Elton Trueblood

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

— Ed Smith

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

— Romain Rolland

When I experienced racism here in my own country, I was not prepared for it. I had never heard the word racism.

— Daryl Davis

“I learned early that the one truly international quality among people of all races is xenophobia.”

— Christopher Lee