Racism Quotes
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The color of a person's heart is more important than the color of their skin.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
— 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
Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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
Racism is a visual pathology.
— Adrian Piper
All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
— Shirley Chisholm
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
A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.
— William J. Clinton
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
— DaShanne Stokes
Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.
— Carlos Mencia
The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.
— Claudia Rankine
If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.
— Rachel Lloyd
Nationalism is just racism with a flag.
— Peter Joseph
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
— Florynce Kennedy
The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.
— Joseph Conrad
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
— Miguel De Unamuno
There's no racism with the Internet.
— ASAP Ferg
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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
— Quincy Jones
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
— Saul Bellow
Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.
— Jonathan Heatt
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them
— Elie Wiesel
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
There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.
— Carl Douglas
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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
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
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
— Nate Silver
Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
— Lonnie Bunch
Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.
— Dinesh D'Souza
A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.
— Thierry Henry
We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.
— James Baldwin
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
— Jane Elliott
Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
— DaShanne Stokes
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
— Chris Crutcher
I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.
— Chelsea Handler
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
— DaShanne Stokes
So, I have to know," he says, "what are you?"But just because he has to know doesn't mean I have to tell him anything. — Marilyn Hilton
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
— Margaret Walker
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.
— Werley Nortreus
Racism is a physical experience.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
— Jonathan Lethem
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
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
— James Baldwin
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
— Sister Souljah
Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.
— William J. Clinton
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
— Audre Lorde
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
Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
— Shannon Celebi
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.
— Margaret Cho
Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?
— Kip Fulbeck
That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.
— Robert Hood
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
You face racism in small and large ways.
— Jayson Blair
There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.
— Alton Brown
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
We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.
— Hillary Clinton
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