Racism Quotes
757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the…
— Nelson Mandela
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An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.
— Ruth Manorama
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We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to…
— Patsy Mink
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.
— Barack Obama
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Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the…
— Barack Obama
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I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once…
— Paul Robeson
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...we need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held...
— Samuel Ruiz
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Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our…
— Russell Simmons
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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all…
— Russell Simmons
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I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
— Dionne Warwick
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I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who…
— Maxine Waters
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My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.
— Lily Yeh
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(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the…
— Dan Rather
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ...…
— Al Sharpton
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A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.
— William J. Clinton
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(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as…
— Harry Reid
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I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku…
— Christopher Dodd
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Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
— Mary Frances Berry
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Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea…
— Mary Frances Berry
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Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to…
— James Abourezk
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There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
— Julianne Malveaux
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Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's…
— Jeremiah Wright
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There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their…
— Jeremiah Wright
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