Top Racism Quotes

A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watcha Christ go up in flames, smiling,as if he were a hookedfish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned.His charred...

What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when...

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such...

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this separation may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they trul...

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

I used to think if I could be free I should be the happiest woman," a young Mississippi woman recalled. "But when my master come to me, and says 'Lizzie, you is free!' it seems like I was in a kind of...

African-Amendment.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

Although a handful of progressive individuals favoured independence from Spain, Cuba's economic elite was conservative, fearful of the economic and social consequences of a break with the colonial mot...

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

Let us have peace. But there was the black man looming like a dark ghost on the horizon. He was the child of force and greed, and the father of wealth and war. His labor was indispensable, and the los...

If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Together they are beautiful.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

Having the liberty to have freedom of choice is the greatest thing that each and everyone of us has because that makes us who we are. Do not however use this as an excuse to discriminate, segregate an...

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.