Racism Quotes

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

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

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

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.