Racism Quotes - page 3

Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen. (Martina Hingis)
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. View quote
Iris Chang
Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized. View quote
Jürgen Moltmann
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. View quote
Alveda King
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. View quote
Alveda King
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular. View quote
Alveda King
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. View quote
Alveda King
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. View quote
Alvin Ailey
Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans. View quote
Artur Davis
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. View quote
Betty Buckley
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. (Bob Cousy)
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. View quote
Bebe Moore Campbell
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. View quote
Claude Pepper
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president. View quote
Douglas Wilder
First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle. View quote
Evan Sayet
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again. View quote
Edward Furlong
The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it. View quote
Herschel Walker
I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account. (Jamie Foxx)
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. View quote
Jayson Blair
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. View quote
Jessica Valenti
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. View quote
Joe Slovo
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. View quote
John Prendergast