Racism Quotes

• The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Racism

• 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
  • Fear
  • Racism
  • Strangers

• 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
  • Violence
  • Goals
  • Racism

• I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• How grateful I am that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations.

  

  Alexander B. Morrison
  • Church
  • Racism
  • Stood

• I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Country
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Passion

• Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Problem
  • Feminism
  • Sexism

• Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Life
  • World
  • Color

• 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
  • Understand
  • Hide
  • African-Canadians

• Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Experience
  • Racism

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

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

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Party
  • Democratic
  • Incredibles

• We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Racism
  • Senses
  • Belonging

• 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
  • Film
  • Racism
  • Board

• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Believe
  • Justice
  • Difficult

• Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Community
  • Fall
  • Fighting

• I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Environment
  • Racism

• When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

  

  Willie D
  • Revolution
  • Racism

• To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Believe
  • Racism

• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  

  Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Vision

• There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Racism
  • Hypocrisy

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

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Racism
  • Fabricate

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