Racism Quotes
Racism Quote of the day
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.
Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
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.
Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.
First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
