Racism Quotes

757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak;… — Richard Dawkins
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream,… — Malcolm X
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on… — Dorothy Allison
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as… — Michael Eric Dyson
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! — Isaac Asimov
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you… — Harper Lee
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy.… — Thurgood Marshall
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate,… — Nelson Mandela
You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism. — Condoleezza Rice
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't… — Bell Hooks
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,… — Carlos Fuentes
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched… — Kofi Annan
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. — William Faulkner
Achievement has no color — Abraham Lincoln
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put… — Thomas Sowell
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of… — Russell Brand
I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I… — Kathryn Stockett
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… — Cornel West
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That… — Bob Marley
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social… — Wendell Berry
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will… — Audre Lorde
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens

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