Racism Quotes
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We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just - it's a byproduct of capitalism.
Fred Hampton
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We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.
Ayanna Pressley
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.
Ban Ki-moon
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Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.
Jordan Peele
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So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.
Lil Rel Howery
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
Wynton Marsalis
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Each one of us must ask how we contribute to the racist climate that seems only to grow stronger in spite of our best efforts at legislative and social remedies. Whether we are victims of racism or its perpetrators, we must begin on our knees.
Wilton Daniel Gregory
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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
Ana Castillo
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
Alice Childress
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There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.
Berhan Ahmed
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I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
Alicia Garza
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
Shirley Chisholm
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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
William Julius Wilson
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I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Dolores Huerta
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Leftist, anti-fascist activists known as Antifa, whose stated goals are to stamp out racism, white supremacy and authoritarianism, sometimes do use violence.
Elizabeth Flock
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Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigenous Canadians understand racism: they see it all the time, they live with it.
Constance Backhouse
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Racism and prejudice exist there at the National Film Board like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
Alanis Obomsawin
