Quotes About Racism

If I'm walking down an American street and anyone darker than a peanut shell approaches, I'll say, Hello. This because, if I don't say it, he or she might think that I'm anxious. Which, of course, I must be, otherwise I'd walk by in silence, just as I do with my fellow Caucasians. Does this make me racist, or simply race conscious? Either way, I'm more afraid of conservatives than I am of black people.

As a final objection to Blair's entreaty, Douglass once again addressed the pernicious effects of colonization, which he saw as proslavery theory in disguise. Douglass insisted that slavery, racism, and future black equality be discussed as a single question, to be settled on American soil within American institutions.

The blacks or coloured people are treated more cruel by the white Christans of America than devils themselves ever treated a set of men, women, and children on this earth. - David Walker 1829

To fear the contagion of poverty is reasonable. To keep voting for policies that ensure the permanent existence of an underclass is what is meant by 'structural racism'.)

She wanted to check that it was not her imagination, that she was not being unfair or undemocratic, or worse still racist (but she had read Colour Blind, a seminal leaflet from the Rainbow Coalition, she had scored well on the self-test), racist in ways that were so deeply ingrained and socially determining that they escaped her attention.

But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. . . . It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory. —Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

We cry 'cause we slave. In night time we cry, we say we born and raised to be free people and now we slave. We doan know why we be bring 'way from our country to work lak dis. It strange to us. Everybody lookee at us strange. We want to talk wid de udder colored folkses but dey doan know whut we say. Some makee de fun at us.

They were there with their tongues cocked and loaded, the only real weapon left to weak folks. The only killing tool they are allowed to use in the presence of white folks.

One white reviewer in 1937 [said he] had difficulty believing that such a town as Eatonville, inhabited and governed entirely by negroes, could be real.

What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough? Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home. Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who made up a racist social media page geared at me.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

I really wanted people to see that just because I'm successful doesn't mean I'm not going to be affected by racism.

America has that agenda, a White supremacist agenda.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Racism is racism–and there is no room in America for racism of any color. And we must reject calls for racism, whether they come from a throat that is white or one that is black.

George Wallace, who had been Governor of Alabama during the worst of the troubles there. Wallace had a knack of appealing to racists by inflammatory words and deeds

Because of EU rules,' Fox agreed. 'Which are about to end.' 'Bloody Brexit,' Morelli commented. 'Have you noticed any changes during your time in Scotland?' Fox went on. 'Changes?' 'A hardening of attitudes.' 'Racism, you mean? Not especially – it's a bigger issue in England, I think.