Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Claude Pepper

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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.

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.

Jo Brand

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

Lynda Barry

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Joaquin Phoenix

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand

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

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.

Florynce Kennedy

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Isaac Asimov

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Jesse Jackson

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

James A. Baldwin

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Christopher Hitchens

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Christina Hoff Sommers

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."

Gilbert Gottfried

What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.

Fran Lebowitz

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Jim Clyburn

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

Jerry West

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Chrissie Hynde

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

Halle Berry

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

Eric Williams

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.