Racism Quotes

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

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

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

The Indian race is waiting and praying.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

Racism is a visual pathology.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Racism really does exist.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.