Quotes About Racism

I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.

There's just been so much, you know, blatant lies about me, specifically when it comes to questions of Nazism and racism.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

But everyone, including ethnic minorities, should be worried about how anti-racism is becoming weaponized across the political spectrum - how a lot of people in politics think it's a good idea to exaggerate the problem of racism.

We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on you, call you every name in the book. Believe me, for him not to respond, to ignore it and not retaliate, you can't say enough good about Jackie.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.