Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Jane Elliott

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

Constance Baker Motley

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Coretta Scott King

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Andrew Hacker

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Khaled Hosseini

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Mike Pence

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

Minnie Pearl

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

Terrence Howard

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

Ted Hughes

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.