Racism Quotes
To all you sensitive sallys out there who spend your time scribing angry letters, I have great news:...
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The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. ...
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Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...
Show MoreMarie felt a sudden urge to smash the glass, break down the door, pull down the building. She wanted...
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They called me an Indian pig. Oh, and they called me a prairie n*****. Pretty colorful, enit?""I sup...
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If you kill a black man, the world is silent. You can hear a garage door opening from twenty blocks ...
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I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to b...
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because...
Show MoreWe take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. ...
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Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current ev...
Show MoreDr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States...
Show MoreRacism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...
Show MoreWhite liberals are always saying, "What can we do?” I mean, they’re always coming to help black peop...
Show MoreUp until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but af...
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As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in ...
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You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your be...
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But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...
Show MoreMozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...
Show MoreIt was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, ...
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Looking out the window, Moist saw a small swarm of goblins leave the train and at first he thought, ...
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism ...
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We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one ...
Show MoreIt would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to oper...
Show MoreRacism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now...
Show MoreExternal explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to ma...
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Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...
Show MoreThe function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work....
Show MoreI always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I n...
Show MoreIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who ea...
Show MoreThose white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There...
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Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...
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Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of t...
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Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. You can say that you don’t pick sides, but event...
Show MoreIn any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as...
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My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look...
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I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...
Show MoreThis so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!When they c these crooked ass Redn...
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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
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At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites...
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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...
Show MoreIt is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...
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It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...
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The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the s...
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Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all c...
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They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come...
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Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the mo...
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It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color...
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From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the s...
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No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are...
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If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would r...
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a...
Show MoreRace theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose...
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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Mos...
Show MoreI'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, bla...
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They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because h...
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No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...
Show MoreTrayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...
Show MoreQuote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.
Achievement has no color
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...
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We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not ...
Show MoreAs I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and in...
Show MoreBigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.
Racism is a disease of white people
Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dis...
Show MoreI later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was...
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Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...
Show MoreI recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...
Show MoreWhile we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
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The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...
Show MoreA whole nation cannot rise above itself.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-lo...
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In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would ...
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It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible...
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I love analogies! Let’s have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind o...
Show MoreWhen you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...
Show MoreOur love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...
Show MoreEvery miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...
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To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or an...
Show MoreIt neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...
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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...
Show MoreFor the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...
Show MoreIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...
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If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women...
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...
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Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...
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