Quotes About Racism

Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and the pope. Unlike evangelicals who have stayed strong in their support of President Trump, the USCCB knows that it cannot afford to lose their Hispanic and African American population because of a weak stance on racism.

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express a lot of things. When it happened to me, I couldn't believe it, and in that moment, I decided to walk off the pitch.

When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face.

Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.

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.

I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.

I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we lacked.

Of course Meghan Markle wasn't driven out of this country by racism. It is a ludicrous claim and symptomatic of how ridiculous the must-be-offended-at-all-costs brigade has become.

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.

One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they're not laughing at the joke, they're laughing at this crazy character.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.

Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise.