Racism Quotes

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.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

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

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

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.

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

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

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 want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

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!

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.