Racism Quotes

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

In all manifestations of racism from the mildest to the most severe, what is being denied is the possibility that the racializers and the racialized can coexist in the same society, except perhaps on the basis of domination and subordination.

George M. Fredrickson

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

Albert Memmi

Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship.

Vincent F. Rocchio

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

Friedrich Otto Hertz

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

Bill Cosby

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

William Faulkner

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

Jesse Jackson

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?

Judith Jamison

Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans.

Vincent F. Rocchio

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

The biggest problem through out the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly.

Erik Hansen

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Dennis Leary

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then.

Spike Lee

Even the most blatant bigots, when made aware of their racism, can change.

Charles R. Ridley

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Martin Luther King Jr

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

Don Williams, Jr.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Byron R. White

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Desmond Tutu

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

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

Bobby Seale

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