Racism Quotes - Page 20

• A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Atheist, Children

  "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Looks, Policy

  32 Copy quote

• Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

  Richard Lamm

  Ghetto, Heart, Ambition

  "Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America". Book by Richard Lamm, 2006.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

  Shai Linne

  Keys, Justification, Eliminating

  14 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

  Toni Morrison

  Race, Social, Function

  "Toni Morrison Breaks Down The Reality Of Race On The Colbert Report" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

  143 Copy quote

  Show source

• I struggle with racism every day

  John Grisham

  Struggle

  7 Copy quote

• We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Black, Socialism

  YouTube Channel "Mas Sergio"/"Fred Hampton - 'Political Prisoner'", www.youtube.com. January 06, 2013.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

  Pauley Perrette

  Memories, Alive, Action

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Enemy, United States, Way

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Imagination, Political, Doe

  14 Copy quote

• People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Hate, Writing, White

  4 Copy quote

• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

  36 Copy quote

• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Rights

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loyalty, Hate, Shopping

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

  Howard Dean

  Country, President, United States

  4 Copy quote

• Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  "Journalist Geraldo Rivera". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 23, 2015.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Posts, Hard, Ifs

  6 Copy quote

• I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

  Chaske Spencer

  School, White

  6 Copy quote

• The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Arrogance, Prejudice

  15 Copy quote

• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Adoption, Satisfaction

  7 Copy quote

• If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Thinking, Nasty

  4 Copy quote

• I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, Order, Interviews

  4 Copy quote

• To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Lines, Creeds

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

  Alvin Ailey

  Finding Yourself, Racist, World

  9 Copy quote