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Quotes About Racism

If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
~ Naomi Klein
Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump.
~ Daryl Davis
There are plenty of people, including good friends of mine, who are not racist, and who voted for Trump. A lot of people wanted a change from what they were accustom to for the last decades... they wanted a change of the status quo, a changing of the guard. And they were willing to overlook his misogyny, his racist or bigoted comments.
~ Daryl Davis
The Brexit thing says it all. It's all to do with immigration and the people that have voted to leave the EU... for me, it's because of racism, because they don't want people coming into our country.
~ Andre Gray
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.
~ Coretta Scott King
My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?
~ Lena Waithe
The stage is the last bastion of segregation.
~ Lynn Nottage
I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.
~ Bill Duke
This is about black people selling out other black people.
~ John Mellencamp
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
~ Max Boot
Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.
~ Lynda Carter
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.
~ Ruby Bridges
It's a shame, racism still exists.
~ Roberto Carlos
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
~ Robin DiAngelo
Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.
~ Edgar Davids
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
~ Alice Walker
Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.
~ Ana Navarro
I have no record of racism or antisemitism, there is no evidence to support it, not even a shred of evidence.
~ Nicolas Anelka
I learned that a person of color might be afraid to let their children go drive a car, which is awful.
~ Mack Brown
I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
~ Norman Jewison
And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
~ Norman Jewison
I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
I have to battle so many issues, and the biggest is racism.
~ Tan France