Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Susan B. Anthony

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Jane Elliott

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

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.

Chris Crutcher

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

Dennis Prager

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

Bayard Rustin

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Brandon Marshall

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

Arthur Ashe

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

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

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.

Ann Coulter

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

Adam Hochschild

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

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.

Gary L. Francione

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

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?

Elie Wiesel

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

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

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.