Culture Quote by David Olusoga

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

— David Olusoga

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and…

— Jane Urquhart

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing…

— Alveda King

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and…

— Henry Louis Gates

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want…

— Herman Cain

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it…

— Shelby Steele

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever…

— Albert Memmi

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman.…

— Ruby Dee

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who…

— Nelson Mandela

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Why should racism go away when we are not tackling it in the right way? We are influenced by what we see in the…

— John Barnes

Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately…

— Matt Dillon