Racism Quotes · Page 88

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

— Manning Marable

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

— Sam Esmail

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

— Christopher McDougall

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.”

— Whitney Otto

“Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

— Rachel Dolezal

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of…

— Sadiq Khan

Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by…

— John Assaraf

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage…

— Roberto Firmino

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

— Clarence Benjamin Jones

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's…

— Elvis Mitchell

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to…

— Emily Murphy

Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly…

— H. A. Guerber

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that…

— David Oyelowo

Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question…

— Shelby Steele

“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people,…

— Coretta Scott King

Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't…

— Antonio Cromartie

330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear…

— Mike Pence

Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging,…

— Paul Kivel

“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s…

— Melinda Gates

“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks…

— John Howard Griffin

“Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.”

— Bryant McGill

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

— Sarah Silverman

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

— George Gilder

There's much more venality in the world than there is racism in the world, I find. If it makes money, they'll be…

— Paterson Joseph

I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to…

— Chelsea Handler

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

— Hilton Als

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

“The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.”

— Robert Jacoby

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

— Michael Yates

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

— Coretta Scott King

“if you’ve experienced discrimination in one form, you’re more likely to recognize it in another. Also”

— Gloria Steinem

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

— Anonymous

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

— Arthur Kemp