Quotes About Racism

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

Leftist, anti-fascist activists known as Antifa, whose stated goals are to stamp out racism, white supremacy and authoritarianism, sometimes do use violence.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

Having served as North Carolina Attorney General for 16 years, I am all too familiar with the racism, bigotry and full-out white supremacy that exist in corners of our society.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century.

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.

I remember going to stadiums and huge sections of the stand gave you racial abuse. It was never nice but it wasn't a surprise - particularly when I was first at Spurs.

Nothing surprises me as far as racism is concerned in this country.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. The men who get it also understand that feminism is not a scheme to deprive men but a campaign to liberate us all.

Como el racismo, la misoginia nunca será abordada adecuadamente si se hace solo desde las víctimas. Los hombres que lo asumen también entienden que el feminismo no es un intento de despojar a los hombres de sus derechos, sino una campaña para liberarnos a todos.

McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement is a white thing and that blacks must reject such efforts in order to stay culturally black.

Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the racial pot and portraying blacks as the hopeless victims of racism.

Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?

No state has a more beautiful name—Miss and Sis are sipping on something sippy, and it's probably a sweet tea or an iced bourbon drink—but no state is more synonymous in the rest of the country with racism, ignorance, and cultural backwardness.

There was white racism aplenty in Natchez, but most of it wasn't hateful, and it didn't preclude voting for a black man. It was subtler and more complex than that, and arguably more insidious because it was less easy to call out.

Think about three hundred Donald Trumps walking around here shopping for niggers. 'Look at that one, didn't they shine him up nice? What if I buy that other one, will you make me a deal?' " That