Racism In America Quotes

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.