Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

You can't have capitalism without racism.

George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

George Gilder

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

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.

Joe Slovo

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Richard M. Nixon

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

Robert Delaunay

Seeing is in itself a movement.

Tucker Carlson

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

Sargent Shriver

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Walid Jumblatt

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

Roger Ebert

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.

Whoopi Goldberg

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

Kurt Cobain

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Manning Marable

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

Malcolm X

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

Malcolm X

Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.