Racism Quotes - Page 19

• A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

  Malcolm X

  Pride, Men, Race

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

  Malcolm X

  Healing, America, Ethnicity

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• Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike

  Clarence Thomas

  Kings, Mean, Thinking

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• I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  White, Race, Backgrounds

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Opposites, Play

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• War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

  F. Paul Wilson

  Hate, War, Manifestation

  F. Paul Wilson (2011). “Reprisal”, p.409, Macmillan

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• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated in prior interviews that I abhor racial discrimination and would have worked to end segregation. Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, People

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• More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Believe, Ghost

  "What Are The Gobshites Saying The Days?" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. May 5, 2014.

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• The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Evil, Together

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.103, Beacon Press

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• Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

  Jane Elliott

  Affliction

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• I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Xenophobia, Wish

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

  Henry Rollins

  Ignorance, Feet, Weakness

  "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.

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• Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

  Ron Paul

  Views, Groups, Ugly

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

  Kanye West

  Alive, Stills, Concealing

  Song: Never Let Me Down

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• Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

  Rick Warren

  Stupid, Different, Insult

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 17, 2013

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• Racism springs from ignorance.

  Mario Balotelli

  Spring, Ignorance

  "Manchester City star Mario Balotelli says he's just misunderstood in most revealing interview yet" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. January 11, 2012.

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• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .

  Malcolm X

  Men, Color, Judging

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• Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, People, Support

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• I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Love Is, Compassion, Light

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• We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.

  Chris Rock

  Country, Crazy, America

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cheating, Religious, Hypocrisy

  "Viggo Mortensen blasts President Bush" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. December 14, 2005.

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• We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.

  Kerry Washington

  Hate, Kids, People

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• Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

  Ron Paul

  Ideas, Racist, Libertarian

  "Ron Paul '90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays". edition.cnn.com. January 11, 2008.

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• And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, Black

  "Bill Maher: 'Denying Racism Is The New Racism'", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 7, 2011.

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• As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Slavery, May

  "Racism & Bias — Can We Pause and Be Honest with Ourselves?" by Al Sharpton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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