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The color of a person's heart is more important than the color of their skin. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself. — Tim Wise

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

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. — Tim Wise

Even the Us's are Them's. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair. — Derrick Bell

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

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

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin. — Muhammad Ali

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

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism. — Russell Brand

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

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street. — Spike Lee

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

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. — Gordon Parks

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera. — Gordon Parks

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

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

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst. — Anthony Jeselnik

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

All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

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

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact. — Claudia Rankine

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you? — Mary McLeod Bethune

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you. — Steven Dietz

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

Patriotism is racism for the modern era. — Michelle Templet

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

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. — Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

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

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

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world. — Tyson Fury

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them. — Mario Balotelli

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

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change. — Audre Lorde

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. — Billy Bragg

In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones. — Samanth Subramanian

Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world — Pope Francis

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words. — Donald Sterling

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. — Ayn Rand

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible. — Lilly Singh

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. — Constance Baker Motley

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

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. — Bobby Seale

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

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~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

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.

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

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. — Suzy Kassem

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

The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. — Saul Bellow

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break. — Kristin Hunter

There's no racism with the Internet. — ASAP Ferg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man. — Albert Einstein

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. — Joseph Conrad

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion. — Spike Lee

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

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great. — Werley Nortreus

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. — Huey Newton

White people covered the earth like lice. — Louise Erdrich

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

This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur

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

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism. — K.P. Yohannan

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. — Ruth Benedict

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin. — Henry Johnson Jr

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

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

Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person. — T. Rafael Cimino

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