Racism Quotes · Page 89

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

— Hari Kondabolu

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to…

— J. Philippe Rushton

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

— Anonymous

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

— Virginia Woolf

“You are so articulate.” Translated by a person of color as, “I can’t believe someone from your race is so smart.”

— Trudy Bourgeois

“The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.”

— Gregory Benford

Black lives do matter, of course they do, but we know that the Black Lives Matter movement - capital B, L, M…

— Kemi Badenoch

“The War on Drugs will go down in history as the most racist crusade since slavery.”

— Thor Benson

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address…

— Jemele Hill

There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the…

— Jeremiah Wright

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to…

— Margaret Sanger

Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon…

— Ruby Bridges

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others…

— Mike Pence

It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote,…

— DeRay Mckesson

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived…

— Alicia Garza

Why be racist when we all bleed the same color? Why judge when we haven't even got to really know eachother? Discrimination…

— Anonymous

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist:…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,…

— Anna Quindlen

My conclusion about Mr. Trump's unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an…

— Susan Collins

“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.…

— Michelle Alexander

Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,…

— Ralph Bunche

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made…

— Han Suyin

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

— David Baddiel

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

— Libba Bray

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

— Josephine Baker

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

— Radhika Apte

“#307 "The machine that is this country runs on prejudice and censorship." ~”

— Veracity by Laura Bynun

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

— Dov Davidoff

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

— Bill Frist

I married an Asian. I have eight biracial children, therefore I'm quite certain that I'm the last person that could be called…

— Kate Gosselin

“What do we call someone who talks about winning the race after leaving you amputated for life!”

— SFathima

[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

— Donald Trump

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

— James Mercer

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

— Peter Hitchens

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

— Yolanda Hadid

I think it's important to condemn that. There's a line, and if you have a racial - racist comment, no, somebody has…

— Edgar Davids

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic,…

— Clint Smith