Prejudice And Racism Quotes
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The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism.
— A.E. Samaan
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The limitation prompting folly was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
— Muhammad Ali
I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
— Shirley Chisholm
I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.
— Robert Paul Weston
Hate obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
— DaShanne Stokes
Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.
— DaShanne Stokes
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.
— Ray A. Davis
It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
— Herman Melville
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others ...
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?
— Angie Thomas
No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.
— Suzy Kassem
Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.
— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.
— Ron DeLegge II
Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate?
— Ashly Lorenzana
Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.
— DaShanne Stokes
People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
— DaShanne Stokes
We must dissent from the fear.
— Thurgood Marshall
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
— Dionne Warwick
Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson
— Andrew Zolli
When the house is on fire, do you argue the color of the skin of the man who brings the water?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
— Ruth Benedict
Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that's when you'll know racism is not fun.
— Werley Nortreus
Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
— Alanis Obomsawin
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
— Audre Lorde
Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
— DaShanne Stokes
