Helping Quote by Ishmael Reed

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

— John Barnes

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

— Sargent Shriver

Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat…

— Shannon Sharpe

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

— Albert Einstein

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

— Marita Golden

Racism is a strange mental illness where you look at somebody and say, 'I hate you because of the colour of your skin.'

— Paterson Joseph

I believe that racism is a problem, and we need to do something about it.

— Peyton List

In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person one at…

— Wunmi Mosaku

Talking about what any one section of our society has to do to combat racism just stops people outside that group asking difficult questions…

— John Barnes

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies…

— Maya Angelou

In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have…

— Jordan Peele

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl