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Racism Quotes
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Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Denis Leary

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
Robert Guillaume

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Alvin Ailey

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.
Angela Davis

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
Stokely Carmichael

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
Constance Baker Motley

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
Constance Baker Motley

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.
Herschel Walker

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Carol Moseley Braun

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Sargent Shriver

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
Oliver Tambo

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Cate Blanchett

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
Constance Baker Motley

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
Judith Jamison

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
Jane Elliott

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton

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