Quotes About Racial Profiling

#1. Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Sandoval

#2. I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

George W. Bush

#3. I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had.

Kal Penn

#4. Racial profiling has to stop.

Bobby Rush

#5. From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

Al Sharpton

#6. Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

Robin Williams

#7. Nobody believes in racial profiling until they get a red-haired sushi chef with a southern accent.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#9. I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Eric Holder

#10. Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

Mary Kissel

#12. It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Aberjhani

#13. I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Wen Ho Lee

#14. People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

Jay Leno

#15. When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.

Joe Arpaio

#16. I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Stephen Lang

#17. It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

KRS-One

#18. I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

#19. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?

Philip Dray

#20. I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

Russ Feingold

#21. The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there.

Janelle Gray

#22. Sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#23. I think it's a good sign, though," he said, "that I was crazy about you at sixteen and I'm still crazy about you now."
I smiled at him. "It certainly seems promising.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#24. But I'd know the truth. It took more strength to stand beside someone you loved, even when they were wrong. Especially

Skye Warren

#25. I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.

Andy Andrews

#26. There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

Els Borst

#27. What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

Marcel Proust

#28. It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.

Janelle Gray

#29. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?

Diane L. Randle

#31. I don't think fashion is evil.

Cameron Russell

#32. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Tiger Woods

#33. When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

Sid Luckman