Racism Quotes · Page 92

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

— Julianne Malveaux

Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice

— Charles Mildmay

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

— Henry Giroux

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

— Barack Obama

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

— Charles Barkley

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

— Robert Hughes

“For all of life is like that Race. With ups and downs and all. And all you have to do to win,…

— Dee Groberg

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

— Nish Kumar

I intend to work with President [Donald] Trump on those issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and…

— Rudy Giuliani

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot…

— Samuel Johnson

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts…

— Opal Tometi

This is a business, and no one enters a race not to finish first. I wouldn't say I'm in it for the…

— Will Poulter

Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was…

— Cornel West

I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do…

— Gina Rodriguez

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding…

— Booker T. Washington

I've not experienced racism from other players. Not once. You experience ignorance but that's not the same at all, and I'm always…

— Moeen Ali

I don't understand most blacks, they think that it's all white peoples fault. All this is just distraction from what's really happening…

— Kristen Davoti

“If I was a cake, I would be incomplete unless I was a yellow sponge from Asia; frosted with brown chocolate from…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the…

— Audre Lorde

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black…

— Bernie Sanders

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“To the black man, the white man looks and smells like a corpse. To the white man, the black man has the…

— Dominique Laporte

I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism…

— Kathleen Hanna

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

— Barack Obama

There is a bunch of racism in America, and sadly, most of it's on the left side of the aisle.

— Rush Limbaugh

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

— Khem Veasna

Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

— Garcelle Beauvais

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro…

— Bill Cosby

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

— Warren Farrell

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

— Daryl Davis

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

— Shirley Chisholm

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

— Bobby Jindal

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

— Jimmy Carter

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.

— James T Kirk

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

— Barack Obama

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

— Demba Ba

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them you are invisible. – is”

— Nayyirah Waheed