Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Hochschild

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

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

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.

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.

Claude Pepper

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

Alton Brown

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Kathleen Hanna

If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

Marian Wright Edelman

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

George H. W. Bush

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

George H. W. Bush

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

Lilly Singh

I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

Mary Hunter Austin

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Joe Slovo

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Ice Cube

We'll burn your store right down to a crisp.

Ice Cube

Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up.

Oprah Winfrey

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

Paul Mooney

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Patterson Hood

Racism is a worldwide problem...

Patti LaBelle

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Hillary Clinton

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

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.