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Quotes About Racism

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
~ Malcolm X
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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.
~ Toni Morrison
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
~ Roy Innis
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
~ Henry Rollins
...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.
~ Nicole Beharie
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
~ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
~ Jerry Garcia
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
~ Ruth Benedict
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.
~ Malcolm X
Patriotism can results in racism
~ Irfan Ullah Hosain
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
~ Stefan Emunds
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
~ James A. Baldwin
Ostracism is just another form of racism!
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.
~ Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
~ Michelle Templet
It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
~ Erick Erickson
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.
~ Glenn Reynolds