Quotes About Racism

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though I played for their team. Racist abuse was part of the game and it was never challenged.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Hate cultures are not a thing of the past. They're a continuing problem and one cannot blame presidencies for this. Racism in the U.S. began way back, before the time of Abraham Lincoln.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.

You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.

I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so.

We have to look at it holistically and as a whole and say let us tackle racism or discrimination in life. Then you can look to get rid of it in football.