Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eric Williams

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Ingrid Newkirk

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

Michelle Malkin

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Sister Souljah

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

Mario Balotelli

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

Mario Balotelli

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

Michel Houellebecq

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Margaret Cho

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

Julian Bond

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Malcolm X

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Gloria Steinem

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

Gloria Steinem

there is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Pope Francis

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.