Racism Quotes

757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. — Sargent Shriver
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. — Joe Slovo
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness… — Anna Deavere Smith
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' — Thomas Sowell
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. — Benjamin Spock
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. — Barbra Streisand
Work is valued by the social value of the worker. — Gloria Steinem
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of… — Oliver Tambo
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail… — Desmond Tutu
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they… — Desmond Tutu
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is… — Desmond Tutu
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that… — Desmond Tutu
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors… — Johnny Vegas
Our true nationality is mankind. — H.G. Wells
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. — Elie Wiesel
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. — Oprah Winfrey
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
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the… — Carter G. Woodson
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
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher

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