Top Racism Quotes

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she an...

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, h...

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries...

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless c...

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

In a deck of playing cards, the reds are as important as the blacks.

Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished...

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily...