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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. — Ruth Benedict

The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism. — A.E. Samaan

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction. — Bell Hooks

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. — Christopher Hitchens

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being — Frederick Hertz

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

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same. — Christopher Titus

When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible. — Jacky Fleming

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that. — Tracy Morgan

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

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach. — Max Lerner

In a way, subtle racism was worse because it made you feel crazy. You were always left wondering, was that actually racist? Had you just imagined it? — Brit Bennett

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that. — Azzedine Alaia

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically. — Glenn Reynolds

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. — Steve Sailer

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes. — Benjamin Watson

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

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm saying that sometimes we don't want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what's ugly in ourselves. — Brian F. Walker

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse. — Tahar Rahim

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world. — Robert Paul Weston

It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls. — Voltaire

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody. — Carlos Mencia

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 grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. — Albert Speer

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds. — J. Nozipo Maraire

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. — Alvin Ailey

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. — Assata Shakur

My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children. — Ruby Bridges

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

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. — Michael Hutchence

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. — Malcolm X

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change. — Peter Adejimi

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism. — Hillary Clinton

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

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... — Gwendolyn Brooks

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. — Junot Diaz

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. — Henry Cisneros

Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers. — Marilyn Hilton

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. — Stokely Carmichael

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists — Simon Tam

There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover. — A.E. Samaan

Racism is stupid. It's an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different. — Rick Warren

If you don't understand white supremacy/racism ,everything that you do understand will only confuse you.. — Neely Fuller Jr.

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. — Immortal Technique

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. — Shirley Chisholm

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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera. — Denzel Washington

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults. — Ruby Bridges

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

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism. — Condoleezza Rice

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.
You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much. — Harper Lee

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

Telling me that I'm obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I'm obsessed with swimming when I'm drowning. — Hari Kondabolu

& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker. — David Mitchell

Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak. — Jeff Chang

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien. — Patricia Briggs

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

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism. — Tim Wise

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism — Karl Lagerfeld

Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated. — Dinesh D'Souza

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

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

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

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us. — Annie Elizabeth Delany

I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. — A.E. Samaan

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.

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

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

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. — Constance Baker Motley

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites... — Darcus Howe

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

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. — Ron Paul

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. — Ice-T

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

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

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

Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.'
'That's not even the right kind of racist. — Rainbow Rowell

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing. — Yaa Gyasi

It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes. — Auliq Ice

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure. — Willie D

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering? — Billy Graham

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it? — Simon S. Tam

New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. — Anonymous

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop. — Big Pun

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

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

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.