Top Racism Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Racism quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jerry West
I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
- Jerry West
Collection: Racism
Image of Toni Morrison
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Racism
Image of John Derbyshire
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Racism
Image of Dionne Warwick
I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
- Dionne Warwick
Collection: Racism
Image of Margaret Walker
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
- Margaret Walker
Collection: Racism
Image of Constance Baker Motley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism
- Constance Baker Motley
Collection: Racism
Image of Constance Baker Motley
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
- Constance Baker Motley
Collection: Racism
Image of Carl Bernstein
Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to.
- Carl Bernstein
Collection: Racism
Image of N.K. Jemisin
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.
- N.K. Jemisin
Collection: Racism
Image of William Julius Wilson
Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.
- William Julius Wilson
Collection: Racism
Image of Robin Morgan
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
- Robin Morgan
Collection: Racism
Image of Joe Biden
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
- Joe Biden
Collection: Racism
Image of Sister Souljah
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
- Sister Souljah
Collection: Racism
Image of George Gilder
Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.
- George Gilder
Collection: Racism
Image of George Gilder
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.
- George Gilder
Collection: Racism
Image of Ruth Benedict
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
- Ruth Benedict
Collection: Racism
Image of Tim Wise
The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.
- Tim Wise
Collection: Racism
Image of Gordon Parks
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
- Gordon Parks
Collection: Racism
Image of Gordon Parks
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
- Gordon Parks
Collection: Racism
Image of Jane Urquhart
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another
- Jane Urquhart
Collection: Racism
Image of John H. McWhorter
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
- John H. McWhorter
Collection: Racism
Image of Neal Boortz
Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.
- Neal Boortz
Collection: Racism
Image of Frederik Willem de Klerk
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign
- Frederik Willem de Klerk
Collection: Racism
Image of Alice Dunbar Nelson
Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.
- Alice Dunbar Nelson
Collection: Racism
Image of Eric Williams
Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.
- Eric Williams
Collection: Racism
Image of Pearl Cleage
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
- Pearl Cleage
Collection: Racism
Image of Norbert Elias
I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.
- Norbert Elias
Collection: Racism
Image of Andrew Hacker
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
- Andrew Hacker
Collection: Racism
Image of Maria W. Stewart
Am I not a woman and a sister?
- Maria W. Stewart
Collection: Racism
Image of Johnnetta B. Cole
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.
- Johnnetta B. Cole
Collection: Racism
Image of Robert D Bullard
You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.
- Robert D Bullard
Collection: Racism
Image of Jane Elliott
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
- Jane Elliott
Collection: Racism
Image of Jane Elliott
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
- Jane Elliott
Collection: Racism
Image of Eleanor Holmes Norton
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Collection: Racism
Image of Eleanor Holmes Norton
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Collection: Racism
Image of Kristin Hunter
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.
- Kristin Hunter
Collection: Racism
Image of Carrie Brownstein
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.
- Carrie Brownstein
Collection: Racism
Image of Marita Golden
Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.
- Marita Golden
Collection: Racism
Image of Hillary Clinton
We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Racism
Image of Peter Joseph
Nationalism is just racism with a flag.
- Peter Joseph
Collection: Racism
Image of Raymond Aron
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
- Raymond Aron
Collection: Racism
Image of Beverly Daniel Tatum
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
- Beverly Daniel Tatum
Collection: Racism
Image of Riz Ahmed
The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.
- Riz Ahmed
Collection: Racism
Image of Chris Crutcher
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
- Chris Crutcher
Collection: Racism
Image of J. Nozipo Maraire
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
- J. Nozipo Maraire
Collection: Racism
Image of David Weigel
Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.
- David Weigel
Collection: Racism
Image of Jim Clyburn
I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.
- Jim Clyburn
Collection: Racism
Image of Donald Sterling
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.
- Donald Sterling
Collection: Racism
Image of Ruth Wilson
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.
- Ruth Wilson
Collection: Racism
Image of James Abourezk
Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.
- James Abourezk
Collection: Racism