Racism Quotes · Page 90

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

— Thomas Sowell

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

— Anthony Marais

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

— Alvin Ailey

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

— Langston Hughes

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

— Del Shannon

Racism, even in geography, cannot be tolerated in a country that strives for liberty and justice for all.

— Al N. Green

Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think.

— Romain Grosjean

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death…

— Anonymous

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism.…

— Desmond Tutu

I definitely feel like, in America, even though race is a social construct... there's still a line drawn in the sand; there…

— Rachel Dolezal

As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had…

— Peggy McIntosh

“If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the…

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at…

— Michael C Dawson

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition…

— Monica Crowley

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America…

— Don Yaeger

“How far the gentlemen of dark complexion will get with their independence, now that they have declared it, I don’t know. There…

— H.L. Mencken

“Interestingly, this was the only incident of blatant prejudice that I can remember. But I am aware that such opinions exist in…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

“And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings…

— Terry Brooks

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped…

— Robin DiAngelo

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations…

— Kerry James Marshall

I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After…

— David Oyelowo

“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.”

— Erik Martin Willén

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

— Joe Slovo

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

— James Lee Burke

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to…

— Ida B. Wells

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

— Walter Scott

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

— Branch Rickey

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

— Munira Mirza

“In the game of change, everyone is a winner as long as he is in the race.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Great problem-solvers avoid being trapped into solving the wrong problem by defining the problem without prejudice or assumption”

— Nat Greene

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

— William Ellery Channing

“There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and…

— Jack L. Chalker

On many occasions I have had to approach salary and bonus in a different way to white men.

— Andi Oliver

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

— Tituss Burgess

“Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.”

— Habeeb Akande