Racism Quotes

757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another… — Malcolm X
They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that… — Malcolm X
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. — Margaret Cho
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture. — Jesse Jackson
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another. — Nelson Mandela
White folks still in the lead. — Louis Armstrong
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of… — Pauley Perrette
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of… — Phylicia Rashad
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it… — Cristina Saralegui
Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years… — Timothy Leary
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people.… — Spike Lee
I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite… — Lewis Nkosi
When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is… — Medgar Evers
We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that. — James Earl Jones
Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an… — Everett Dirksen
I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black… — Audre Lorde
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me! — Jamaica Kincaid
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I… — Sue Monk Kidd
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… — Frantz Fanon
When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow. — Bayard Rustin

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