Racism Quotes

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

Nationalism is just racism with a flag.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Denying racism is the new racism.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

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

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

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

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Am I not a woman and a sister?

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.