Quotes About Racism

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Racism is a disease of white people

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

I see no changes, All I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace for races we under, I wonder what it takes to make this one better place.

A guy like Franz could talk smack all day about my Afro, my lack of brains, my mother, her alleged lack of virtue.

The story of the Negro in America is the story of America—or, more precisely, it is the story of Americans. It is not a very pretty story: the story of a people is never very pretty.

When he's not lynching you, he's humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

They sent out notices to all the tribal leaders, and they told us we could have whatever we wanted: Prairie Niggers, if the New Jersey team did not object, Redskins, Savages, Warriors, Heathens, Braves, Bucks—and of course the cheerleaders would be the Squaws, unless we wanted to modernize the language and just call them the Cunts. But

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

No good Indian but a dead Indian

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

Let me emphasize, as well, that given a society pervaded by white racism, as discussed in the previous chapter, it will be the mentally ill of color who are generally taken to be a "criminal element" (instead of having a mental impairment), and so simply swept into the prisons by the states' carceral dragnet operations.