Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Sarah Churchwell

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sandra Bullock

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Walter Lang

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

William Julius Wilson

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

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!

Neal Boortz

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Rosemary Palmer

He knew our feelings. At this point we have to put in enough military or get out. Preferably get out.

David Towne

I think their feelings were that a deal's a deal. But I think they said they would think about it.

Jessica Huggins

We're proud of how we played, but it's still disappointing. There are no good feelings because we played good enough to win.

Kevin Constantine

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

Marvin Moss

I think a lot about last year's game and how we felt afterward. Those two games are the two worst feelings I've had here.

Dennis Hastert

I think Tom Reynolds may have been talking about what his feelings are,

George Parnham

I have bittersweet feelings about (the remarriage). I told Rusty a number of years ago that, obviously, there has to come a point in where he gets on with his life. Andrea has to get on with hers.

Ricardo Khan

He gave voice to so many feelings that so many people had.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

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.