Quotes About Racism In Sports

#1. Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. 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

#3. Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

Ice Cube

#4. The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.

Terre Thaemlitz

#5. You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Jim Bakker

#6. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

Simon Heffer

#7. You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

Jones Loflin

#8. V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

Carrie Vaughn

#9. It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca.

#10. It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out.

Adam Dodek