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!

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.

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.

Mary Hunter Austin

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

Bayard Rustin

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Paul Krassner

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Joaquin Phoenix

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

Jo Brand

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

Gordon Parks

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Brandon Marshall

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

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

Jane Elliott

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Gary L. Francione

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

Susan B. Anthony

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Chris Crutcher

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Dennis Prager

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Elie Wiesel

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Ann Coulter

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

Alex Haley

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.