Racism Quotes - page 12

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism. (Chaske Spencer)
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts. View quote
Cliff Curtis
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism. View quote
Cristina Saralegui
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country. View quote
Carrie Mae Weems
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. View quote
Don Cornelius
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain. View quote
Dan Maffei
While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge. View quote
Douglas Brinkley
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights. View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. View quote
Jean-Francois Cope
I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma. (Jean-Francois Cope)
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. View quote
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. View quote
Johnny Vegas
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. View quote
Julian Bond
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. View quote
Justin Sane
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. View quote
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist. View quote
Lil Rel Howery
So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light. View quote
Lil Rel Howery
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream. View quote
Lucille Roybal-Allard
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. View quote
Lynda Barry
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. (Lee Grant)
Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me. View quote
Lee Trevino
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. View quote
Mario Balotelli
Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along. View quote
Charlie Wilson
To me, racism is so played out and corny and stupid, especially in music, where you now have Nelly doing songs with Tim McGraw, on the hit single 'Over and Over.' Anyone who thinks about that just needs to get a life. View quote
Clinton Sparks