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.

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.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Robert Redford

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Samuel Richardson

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

Ronnie Shakes

Where there's a will there's a dead person.

William Wallace

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.