Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alvin Ailey

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Alvin Ailey

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Constance Baker Motley

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Constance Baker Motley

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

Constance Baker Motley

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Alton Brown

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Thomas Sowell

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

Tariq Ramadan

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...

Rene Cassin

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear.

Ruth Wilson

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Ruth Benedict

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Ruth Benedict

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

Roger Staubach

Discrimination is a disease.

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

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.

Tim Wise

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Tim Wise

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

Tahar Rahim

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Steven Morrissey

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

Rand Paul

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

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

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.