Quotes About Racism

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI, was a racist and he said we don't want any black people.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did experience racism.

I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

The government men dragged Mom out of the house. They held her by the elbows and ankles and shoulders and thighs, their harsh, meaty hands digging into her softness. She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way white men always know how to do.

I knew what it meant. Pap didn't have an accident. He died for being a proud black man. He died because someone killed him. Someone who was going to get away with it.

I'm not afraid...I'm awake to the way they think now...They have to have us in a box. They have to have us know they could shoot us. At any time.

Some patrons acted from respect or friendship for their clients, others from a sense of noblesse oblige, and yet others because the free people's gratitude could be profitable. Vulnerable black people paid premium prices for goods and services that white men and women bought cheaply. Landlords who rented land to black planters often exacted higher rents from them than they did from white tenants, just as employers who hired free black

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

So often, vast circumstances confine us, like a life sentence in prison or tending to people who are dying, or racist immigration law, or combat, circumstances that seem to "always win." But in recognizing the vastness of such fates, that we are "a tiny speck" in a "huge place," we can find a "freeing feeling" and even an urge to build "real joy for all people." We so often experience transformative awe in the hardest of circumstances.

A curious aspect of the Lamanite curse is that no matter how wicked the Nephites become, even if they exceed the wickedness of the Lamanites, their skin remains white. To many of Smith's pre-Darwinian contemporaries, racism blunted the discomfort people felt when they were confronted with human diversity and what they considered to be a challenge to the Adam and Eve story.

All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

I think you have a lot of rich and Conservative people who control our country who are racist and their views trickle down through things like tabloid papers.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.