Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Chris Crutcher

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Brandon Marshall

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

Dennis Prager

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

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

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Walter Benjamin

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

Walter Benjamin

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Adam Hochschild

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

Claude Pepper

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley

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

Alex Haley

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

Alex Haley

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

Donna Brazile

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

Donald Sterling

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

Coretta Scott King

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.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Alton Brown

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Alveda King

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Angela Davis

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

Angela Davis

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.

Alvin Ailey

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Alvin Ailey

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Alvin Ailey

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.