Racism Quotes

In 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...

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There...

Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...

Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of t...

Because racism exists, and you have to pick a side. You can say that you don’t pick sides, but event...

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as...

My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I look...

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...

This so called 'Home of the Brave'why isn't anybody Backing us up!When they c these crooked ass Redn...

The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...

At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites...

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

It 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...

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...

The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the s...

Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all c...

They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come...

Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the mo...

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color...

From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the s...

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are...

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would r...

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a...

Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose...

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...

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, bla...

They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because h...

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...

Trayvon 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...

Quote 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...

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not ...

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and in...

Bigotry 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...

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

I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was...

Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

A 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...

In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would ...

It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible...

I love analogies! Let’s have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind o...

When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or an...

It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women...

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was...

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them wi...

The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "prot...

That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that ...

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating i...

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis...

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor...

A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppres...

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone e...

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been cond...

Hate obscures all distinctions.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not b...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n...

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd ha...

Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with ...