Racism Quotes

You face racism in small and large ways.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

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.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

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.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.