Racism Quotes · Page 87

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person...

— Barack Obama

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

— Logan Browning

“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.”

— DaShanne Stokes

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

— Bayard Rustin

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

— Prentice Mulford

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.

— Martin Luther King III

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an…

— Toni Morrison

The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have…

— Tomochichi

Be tolerant of differences, rich & poor, big & small. Don't label people from another social circle. We don't want that to…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in…

— Dick Gregory

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in…

— Nicholas Kristof

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the…

— Joe Morton

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in…

— Tim Wise

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a…

— George R. R. Martin

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the…

— Huey Newton

“San Franciscans would have sworn on the Golden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their air-conditioned city. But…

— Maya Angelou

I don't want to see trickle down racism. I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which…

— Mitt Romney

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to…

— James Baldwin

Im happy to be black. I am what I am, Im doing very well in my life, and Im thankful to God…

— LL Cool J

There is only one race on this planet and that is the human race. There are many ethnic families and I believe…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in…

— Maxine Waters

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,…

— Rosa Parks

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

— Rosa Parks

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

— John Piper

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

— Mildred D. Taylor

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones…

— Will Hurd

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

“Systemic racism isn’t something you can opt out of; it’s only something you can consciously resist.”

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

— Keanu Reeves

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

— Neil Warnock

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

— P. Chidambaram

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

— Ruby Bridges

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

— Roger Ross Williams

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

— Ron Paul