Racism Quotes

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.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

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.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

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.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

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

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.