Racism Quotes · Page 91

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

— Jo Brand

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.

— Derrick Grayson

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“...[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.”

— Howard Zinn

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality...

— John Hume

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

— Tariq Ramadan

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

— Rick Famuyiwa

“racism refers to the belief in a natural hierarchy that places blacks at the bottom, and the tendency of whites to judge…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that…

— Loretta Sanchez

Anti-Asian racism is very real, and it will not be solved with an opulent rom-com or Marvel superhero, but with you -…

— Simu Liu

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play…

— Steven Berkoff

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves…

— Pierre Berton

“Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people…

— Jodi Picoult

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face…

— John Ridley

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not…

— Nell Scovell

“Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case:…

— Alveda King

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by…

— Kristin Hunter

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the…

— Jeremy Griffith

Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High…

— David Brooks

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture…

— Benjamin Jealous

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

— Samuel George Morton

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

— Michael Hutchence

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

— Alex Haley

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

— Richard Le Gallienne

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

— Sarah McBride

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

— Ingrid Newkirk

“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.”

— Angie Thomas

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

— Mellody Hobson

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

— Tim Reid