Racism Quotes
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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism. (Racism Quotes)
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I’m Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. (Racism Quotes)
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains. (Racism Quotes)
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire. (Racism Quotes)
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. (Racism Quotes)
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one ‘ideal’ symbol, a woman. (Racism Quotes)
I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother’s a Norwegian and I’m mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world. (Racism Quotes)
I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I’ve never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do. (Racism Quotes)
We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. (Racism Quotes)
Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists and thrives. (Racism Quotes)
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive. (Racism Quotes)
Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism. (Racism Quotes)
There’s more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge. (Racism Quotes)
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race. (Racism Quotes)
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other ‘isms’ that cause so much suffering in the world. (Racism Quotes)
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn’t have any friends. (Racism Quotes)
Feminism isn’t simply about being a woman in a position of power. It’s battling systemic inequities; it’s a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. (Racism Quotes)
I remember people saying: ‘You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,’ but I didn’t think of it being racism, and I still don’t. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider. (Racism Quotes)
I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible (Racism Quotes)
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. (Racism Quotes)
Sure, I’ve felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren’t allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn’t seem like a big deal, because we didn’t know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me. (Racism Quotes)
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. (Racism Quotes)
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don’t respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals. (Racism Quotes)
The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country. (Racism Quotes)
I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. (Racism Quotes)
Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them. (Racism Quotes)
There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism. (Racism Quotes)
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. (Racism Quotes)
While the old spiritual ‘Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last’ was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge. (Racism Quotes)
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. (Racism Quotes)