Racism Quotes

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

We must dissent from the fear.

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

In America, black is a country.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.