Quotes About Racism

I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.

After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.

I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.

As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.

In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah.

Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.

We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race relations and class relations going on.

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

Unfortunately, racism is not confined to our history books.

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate - to stop breathing.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.

I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.