Racism Quotes
757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors
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I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
— Michael Jackson
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I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier,…
— Gale Harold
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
— Arthur Ashe
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I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has…
— Ed Asner
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I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed…
— Robert Guillaume
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I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I…
— Robert Guillaume
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Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe…
— Robert Guillaume
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are…
— John Mellencamp
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It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.
— Ann Coulter
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a…
— Wentworth Miller
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I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want…
— Runoko Rashidi
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What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation,…
— Grover Furr
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The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by…
— Sandra Dallas
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Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
— J. Nozipo Maraire
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Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it. It's part of…
— Billy Connolly
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the…
— Angela Davis
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The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
— Toni Morrison
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Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
— Robin Morgan
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And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an…
— John F. Kennedy
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris…
— George H. W. Bush
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Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly…
— Hugo Chavez
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If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to…
— Clarence Thomas
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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the…
— Clarence Thomas
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