Racism Quotes

The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recog...

Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The de...

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a re...

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a re...

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a re...

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a re...

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comi...

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the rac...

I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountab...

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody...

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped shar...

[Chief White Halfoat:] Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terribl...

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit ...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythica...

Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don...

White people covered the earth like lice.

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there...

If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way—who would like...

You can't have capitalism without racism.

When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before...

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic p...

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take...

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to ac...

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a c...

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifest...

Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--...

New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted his...

The Sons of the Serpent - they want you angry. At the world. They need us all to feel like victims. ...

Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a canc...

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom o...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism a...

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys...

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

Even today there still exists in the South--and in certain areas of the North--the license that our ...

...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subt...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used ...

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little ...

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already tra...

Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of S...

We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were i...

We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up...

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and ...

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we th...

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have serve...

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law ...

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control i...

The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is tha...

Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crim...

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...

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

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color ski...

That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how t...

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very h...

You must remember, though, that most normal people have never seen an orogene, let alone had to do b...

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of ...

I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the ...

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and wome...

There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are ve...

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

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

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shang...

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true na...

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would...

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They...

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that...

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to...

I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a...

...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kep...

Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, wher...

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

...out of the counterfeiting of the black American's identity [in blackface minstrelsy] there arises...

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been ali...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...