Racism Quotes
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My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Raymond Aron
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Raymond Aron
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Raymond Aron
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When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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There's no racism with the Internet.
ASAP Ferg
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
Kevin Young
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
Chaske Spencer
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Racism in America is real.
Darryl Glenn
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... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
Evan Sayet
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Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.
Ana Navarro
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The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.
Thomas Sowell
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What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
John McWhorter
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What bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.
Victor Davis Hanson
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The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.
Alicia Garza
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor
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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
Alan Ball
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You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
Newt Gingrich
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on reacting to racism I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. 'I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!'
Margaret Cho
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One of the most subtle but aggressive ways racism exists is through our education system.
Jaylen Brown
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It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.
Jenna Wortham