Quotes About Racism

The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

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

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.