Racism's Quotes

#1. Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here ... it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Irvine Welsh

#2. No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Curious George Brigade

#3. 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.

#4. Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

Albert Einstein

#5. Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.

Daniel Tosh

#6. The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

Elana Dykewomon

#7. Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#8. To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.

Nia Long

#9. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X

#10. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#11. If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Alvin Ailey

#12. A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.

Henry Johnson Jr

#13. I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

James Brown

#14. It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson

#15. People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

#16. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. 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

#18. The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

Charlotte Bunch

#19. I'm not a racist, it's my principle: despite the fact that I'm on a diet and I should eat only white meat I eat also red and dark (I hope this is not a racist words?) with great relish, enjoying every bite.

Bryanna Reid

#20. Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Nate Silver

#21. Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.

Junot Diaz

#22. 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

#23. [The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

Sean Hannity

#24. America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.

Malcolm X

#25. Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

Godfrey

#26. I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Kara Walker

#27. The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

James Fenton

#28. I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

John Legend

#29. It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.

David Bullard

#30. It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

Brian Spellman

#31. The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

Octavia E. Butler

#32. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Florynce Kennedy

#33. The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Assata Shakur

#34. I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

Jean-Francois Cope

#35. 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

#36. Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

Michael R. French

#37. (P58) It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on "great leaders," Churchill's worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.

Ralph Raico

#38. It's often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn't it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

Ann Coulter

#39. As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

Dorothy Day

#40. If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.

Carl Hart

#41. When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

Chelsea Clinton

#42. 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

#43. Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin's sons Leonard.

A.E. Samaan

#44. To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

Roy Innis

#45. Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

Martina Hingis

#46. You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality.

Kliph Nesteroff

#47. We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Al Sharpton

#48. There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#49. Racism is stupid. It's an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

Rick Warren

#50. Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.

Ronald Rolheiser

#51. Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But ... the world keeps turning.

Selena

#52. People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.

Ray A. Davis

#53. A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.

Ron DeLegge II

#54. Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

Carlos Mencia

#55. The color of a person's heart is more important than the color of their skin.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. [Chief White Halfoat:] Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop, or spic.

Joseph Heller

#57. 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

#58. I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

Wale

#59. Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.'
'That's not even the right kind of racist.

Rainbow Rowell

#60. It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Tim Wise

#61. 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

#62. I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Frank Zappa

#63. It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.

Malcolm X

#64. African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#65. Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn't mean racism has disappeared. It's all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.

Misty Copeland

#66. 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

#67. I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.

Sally Kohn

#68. Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

Andrew Young

#69. 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

#70. I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Charles Barron

#71. There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

Richard Sherman

#72. Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Alton Brown

#73. There's no racism with the Internet.

ASAP Ferg

#74. I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.

Esai Morales

#75. I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

Denzel Washington

#76. It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.

Auliq Ice

#77. I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

Robert Guillaume

#78. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

S. Kelley Harrell

#79. Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Thomas Sowell

#80. I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.

Pearl Tan

#81. It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

Paul Beatty

#82. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Suzy Kassem

#83. The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

Robert Jensen

#84. We don't come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people's minds from those evils.

Kerry Washington

#85. Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

Tyson Fury

#86. Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

Simon S. Tam

#87. They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#88. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

Harper Lee

#89. The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#90. I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

Mark Fuhrman

#91. Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#92. In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

Sarah Churchwell

#93. Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those Chinese people, they can fly!" "You know about the Puerto Ricans? They're made of candy!"

Louis C.K.

#94. The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?

Fred Moten

#95. Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

Marita Golden

#96. There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively.

Chelsea Handler

#97. Even the Us's are Them's.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#98. As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what i thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss.

Sue Monk Kidd

#99. Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Dick Gregory

#100. Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

Michael Hutchence