Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...

Umberto Eco

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Pope Francis

Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

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.

Thomas Sowell

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sandra Bullock

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Tim Wise

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Tim Wise

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Julian Bond

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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.

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.

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!

Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

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?

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.