Racism Quotes · Page 96

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

— bell hooks

“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.”

— Celeste Ng

We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.

— Daryl Davis

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

— Malcolm X

I suffered racial abuse in Lithuania, and in two games the fans were making monkey noises and throwing coins at me.

— Paulinho

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

— Colson Whitehead

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

— Michelle Malkin

The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation,…

— Fernando Wood

“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money…

— Emile Gauvreau

I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race.…

— Charles Murray

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to…

— Trevor Phillips

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such…

— Neve Campbell

I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the…

— Cindy Sheehan

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and…

— Gloria Steinem

You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you…

— Jane Elliott

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for…

— Tom Brokaw

“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Just as the cops were annoyed when Ricky said he had been repeatedly stopped because he is black, discussion of race is…

— Gabrielle Union

“And while Canada purports to be multicultural, Toronto in particular, a place where everyone is holding hands and cops are handing out…

— Scaachi Koul

Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the…

— Richard M. Weaver

It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't.…

— Michelle Alexander

“Hominy got out of the car to untangle the snarl. Waving his arms like the crazy man he was, he separated the…

— Paul Beatty

“In the race of life, some win and some loose those who win think they are busy and those who loose remain…

— Santosh Kalwar

“It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue…

— Cynthia Heald

Discrimination based on one's religion goes directly against our founding principles.

— Abigail Spanberger

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

— Shaun King

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

— Nell Irvin Painter

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

— James Weldon Johnson

Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.

— Kane Brown

Racism is racial discrimination. Malaysian ain't prejudice but most workplace is.

— Mielya Saladdin

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

— Dorothy Day

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

— Bram Fischer