Racism Quotes · Page 98

Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.

— Jenna Wortham

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

— Susie Wolff

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

— Paul Virilio

Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

— Opal Tometi

The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.

— Robin DiAngelo

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to…

— James Meredith

Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.

— Ted Lieu

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

— Edgar Davids

The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism…

— Rod Lurie

“...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any…

— John Rollin Ridge

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license…

— Sarah Silverman

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100…

— Jackie Robinson

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder…

— Ida B. Wells

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race,…

— Tom Lehrer

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know…

— Jules Feiffer

“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of…

— Hans Eysenck

“Equal protection under the law is not a hard principle to convince Americans of. The difficulty comes in persuading them that it…

— Mark Lilla

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of…

— Jim Brown

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet…

— Booker T. Washington

“If our neighbors were white, they’d be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And…

— James Baldwin

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop.…

— Jimmy Carter

Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.

— Betsy DeVos

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

— Pindar

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

— Oprah Winfrey

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

— Dean Koontz

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

— Laurence Overmire

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

— Joy Reid

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

— Gerda Lerner

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

— W. Eugene Smith

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

— Antonin Scalia

“Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.”

— Jonathan Heatt

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

— Kym Whitley

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

— Cher

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

— Jimmy Carter

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

— Nargis Fakhri