Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

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.

Don Cornelius

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

David Cross

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

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.

Charlotte Bunch

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

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].

Brandon Marshall

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

Bayard Rustin

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

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.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

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.

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.

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Ann Coulter

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