Quotes About Violence And Racism

#1. Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Cate Blanchett

#2. Christians always seemed like bad thinkers to me. It seemed that they could maintain their worldview only because they were sheltered from the world's real problems, like the material structures of poverty and violence and racism.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#3. The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

Anna Quindlen

#4. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Nelson Mandela

#5. I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government's policy towards people of color.

Assata Shakur

#6. 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

#7. Racism and violence were non-existent in this world,
When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Marieta Maglas

#8. The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...

Chris Elliott

#9. Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

#10. Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

Toni Morrison

#11. It's naive for us to think that we can end all violence,abuse,hatred and racism ... when as a nation many consider just talking about the subject taboo & uncomfortable. #TRUTH

Timothy Pina

#12. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.

Adrienne Rich

#13. The larger society was willing to let the frustrations born of racism's violence become internalized and consume its victims. America's horror was only expressed when the aggression turned outward, when the ghetto and its controls could no longer contain its destructiveness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

Rachel Lloyd

#15. The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

Joseph Conrad

#16. The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.

The Prophet Of Life

#17. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Mike Norton

#18. We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.

Bryant McGill

#19. When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Timothy Keller

#20. 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

#21. The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Gloria Steinem

#22. It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.

Michelle Horst

#23. Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Malcolm X

#24. Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

Anthony Kiedis

#25. Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Billy Graham

#26. I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#27. You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.

Steven Petrow

#28. When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

DaShanne Stokes

#29. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#30. 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