Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Alton Brown

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Tariq Ramadan

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear.

Roger Staubach

Discrimination is a disease.

Ron Paul

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

Raymond Aron

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Toni Morrison

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Russell Peters

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Tahar Rahim

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Steven Morrissey

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Michelle Malkin

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Sister Souljah

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Michael Hutchence

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

Mario Balotelli

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

Michel Houellebecq

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Patterson Hood

Racism is a worldwide problem...

Patti LaBelle

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Jesse Jackson

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

James A. Baldwin

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Hillary Clinton

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

Florynce Kennedy

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

Fran Lebowitz

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Chrissie Hynde

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

Jim Clyburn

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

Jerry West

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Eric Williams

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

Gwendolyn Brooks

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...

Carrie Brownstein

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.