Racism Quotes

757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… — Audre Lorde
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't… — Rosa Parks
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading… — Rigoberta Menchu
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the… — Desmond Tutu
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass… — Dennis Kucinich
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many… — Claude Pepper
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being — Frederick Hertz
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity… — James A. Baldwin
The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence - if you… — Issa Rae
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is… — Paul Johnson
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. — John McWhorter
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden… — Janine di Giovanni
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today.… — Maajid Nawaz
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then… — Nalini Nadkarni
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights. — Ezekiel Emanuel
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in… — William Julius Wilson
Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. — Sepp Blatter
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction. — bell hooks
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what… — Sidney Poitier
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race. — Ben Stein
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — Paul Mooney
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic… — Sarah Churchwell
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth. — P.J. O'Rourke
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism… — Bill Cosby

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