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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. — Philip Kerr

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. — Billy Graham

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike. — Ban Ki-moon

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. — Audre Lorde

Jews were expelled to Israel, Protestants were expelled to the USA and where should the Muslims go? — Daniel Marques

Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions. — Robert Wald Sussman

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you. — DaShanne Stokes

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. — Muhammad Ali

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever. — Werley Nortreus

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon. — Toni Morrison

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. — Ayn Rand

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. — Ferial Haffajee

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. — Rigoberta Menchu

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism. — Maajid Nawaz

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. — Bell Hooks

[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism. — Howard Zinn

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth. — P. J. O'Rourke

Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. — Coretta Scott King

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. — Rosa Parks

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

Am I not a woman and a sister? — Maria W. Stewart

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy — R. Buckminster Fuller

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. — Raquel Cepeda

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away. — Sung Kang

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. — Auliq Ice

Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. — Rand Paul

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie. — Justin Simien

about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it. — Nicola Yoon

Racism is not a byproduct as much as it's the foundational stock in the American soup. — Luvvie Ajayi

It is no shame to be racist as long as you admit that you are racist and you try your best to resist your racism. Everyone knows this. — Anonymous

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. — Benjamin Spock

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. — Martin Luther

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil. — Kathy McClary

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. — Assata Shakur

Black Is The Most Beautiful colour because it does not reflect it absorbs all into itself. — Amit Abraham

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more. — Alice Childress

Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques. — Victor LaValle

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go. — Marion Barry

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. — Gloria Steinem

There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color. — Daniel Marques

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day. — George F. Will

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism. — George H. W. Bush

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys. — Toni Morrison

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country. — Angela Merkel

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right. — David Lagercrantz

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it. — Thomas Norman DeWolf

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why. — Daniel Marques

Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling — Miguel De Unamuno

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. — Sepp Blatter

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have. — Toni Morrison

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid. — Robert Hood

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde

You face racism in small and large ways. — Jayson Blair

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens. — Dorothy Cotton

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal. — Farrah Gray

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. — DaShanne Stokes

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. — Margaret Walker

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny. — Jo Brand

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist. — Sister Souljah

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist. — Jack London

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia — Eric C. Wat

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first? — Kip Fulbeck

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

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. — Raquel Cepeda

The very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. — Patricia J. Williams

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. — Assata Shakur

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. — Ingrid Newkirk

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

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from. — James Baldwin

The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism. — Sandra Dallas

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions. — Angela Y. Davis

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. — Ayn Rand

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving. — Jewell Jackson McCabe

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression. — Auliq Ice

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. — John Derbyshire

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. — James Baldwin

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism. — Thierry Henry

Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. — Frederik Willem De Klerk

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right. — Leigh Anne Tuohy