No Racism Quotes

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

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

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

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.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

I struggle with racism every day

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.