Top 65 American Racism Quotes
#2. We French, we have never, never, never had slavery, so we feel we don't understand the American racism. Maybe
Maya Angelou
#3. We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner ... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
George H. W. Bush
#4. Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Margaret Walker
#5. Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
Raquel Cepeda
#6. 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
#8. (Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.
Harry Reid
#9. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.
A.E. Samaan
#10. I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.
John McCain
#11. In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison
#12. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#13. I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
Alice Walker
#14. Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.
A.E. Samaan
#15. If American misjudgments and actions that evolved into human tragedies - i.e., racism, sexism, and other bigotries - are guiding lights, the Chinese leadership must ultimately yield its power to the sovereignty of its people.
Patrick Mendis
#16. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Tim Wise
#17. Most people can't tell if I'm European, Asian, African or American. Isn't it good to know my ancestors weren't racist motherfuckers?
Daniel Marques
#18. I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#19. Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
Barbara Chase-Riboud
#21. Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.
Isabella Rossellini
#22. The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul
#23. When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.
Henry Johnson Jr
#24. Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not necessarily given up negative racial stereotypes" or "negative sentiments and beliefs about African Americans.
John Hoberman
#25. The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#26. 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
#27. The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.
Maya Angelou
#28. From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!
James A. Barlow
#29. I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?
Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#30. Racism is not a byproduct as much as it's the foundational stock in the American soup.
Luvvie Ajayi
#31. A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.
Charles Abrams
#32. Whenever a word 'nigga' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?
and the correct answer is Not really.
Auliq A
#35. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#36. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.
A.E. Samaan
#37. What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.
Grover Furr
#39. The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#40. If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Rich Lowry
#41. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.
Essex Hemphill
#42. Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all.
Jodi Picoult
#43. The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#44. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.
Frank Deford
#45. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
Arthur Ashe
#46. Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
Colson Whitehead
#47. I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul
#48. Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#49. I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!
Zoe Saldana
#50. This feat has been achieved largely by appealing to the racism and vulnerability of lower-class whites, a group of people who are understandably eager to ensure that they never find themselves trapped at the bottom of the American totem pole.
Michelle Alexander
#52. I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.
Cindy Sheehan
#53. Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values
racism, militarism, capitalism
all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
Robin Morgan
#54. A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.
Bocafloja
#55. The 'Righteous' are mightier than 'God.
Shivish
#56. 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
#58. I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.
Frank Deford
#59. Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Aberjhani
#60. America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
Farrah Gray
#63. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.
Rita B. Dandridge
#64. If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.
Henry Johnson Jr
#65. 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
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