Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Coulter

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

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.

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].

Bayard Rustin

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

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.

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.

Alan Ball

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

David Cross

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

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.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

Don Cornelius

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

Ingrid Newkirk

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...

Sister Souljah

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Michael Hutchence

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

Rand Paul

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

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.

Russell Peters

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Ron Paul

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

Pearl Cleage

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

Shirley Chisholm

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear.

Raymond Aron

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

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.

Tahar Rahim

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Steven Morrissey

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Tariq Ramadan

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.