Quotes About Racism

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

If we truly want to make America great, we need to fix this racial inequality.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's not exclusively film. It's infuriating to see it in film. But my being in film changes things.

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

Too many Black lives have been lost to injustice and brutality in this country.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Yes, I went through overt racism as a footballer in the 80s and early 90s but that was, or is, nothing compared to what the average black person in the inner cities of England goes through every day.

We like to think that because we have a black president that thinks are better and racism doesn't exist. That's insane.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

Para de fato compreender a violência contra a mulher, precisamos observar as interseções de classe, desastres ambientais, gênero, imperialismo, militarismo, patriarcado, pobreza, racismo e guerra.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He'd grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers.

The [Fifteenth] Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.

The destruction of Black males now is indirect, so that the Black male victims themselves can be led to participate in - and then be blamed for- their own mass deaths.