Racism Quotes

757 Racism quotes by 487 unique authors

We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the… — Helen Thomas
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. — Joe Biden
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just… — Charles Barron
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... — Barack Obama
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone
I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just… — Halle Berry
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't… — Maya Angelou
When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight… — Halle Berry
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the… — Malcolm X
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met… — Pierre Berton
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside… — Clarence Page
We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with… — Fred Hampton
I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. — Donald Sterling
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words. — Donald Sterling
A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000. — Chris Rock
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? — Joseph Brodsky
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder… — Jean Genet
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near… — Mary McCarthy
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be… — Michael Bloomberg
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and… — Terry Pratchett
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. — Nina Simone
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. — Andrew Johnson
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. — James A. Baldwin
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. — James A. Baldwin

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