Racism Quotes

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Ugly doesn't have a color. It lives among selfishness and hate

~ Ginger Scott

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

No one ever said you’ve got to prepare to be hated. You’ve got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.

~ Tiffany Mcdaniel

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

~ Jorge Ramos

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

President Obama and the so call Department of Justice has ripped the fabric of America's People and suborning hate among African Americans against Law Enforcement and Whites. These actions have made President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Attorney General Eric Holder the biggest racists of all times.

~ David Dweck

Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.

~ Heather Marsh

In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones.

~ Samanth Subramanian

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear.

~ Ralph Ellison

We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.

~ Dan Groat

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

~ Kiana Davenport

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

~ Simon S Tam

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

~ T.f. Hodge

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with.

~ Ray Bradbury

He easily gathered her in his arms, Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

~ Barry Lyga

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

~ F. Paul Wilson

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

~ Alex Morritt

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

~ Ayn Rand

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

~ Harper Lee

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.

~ Marc Morris

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

~ Kofi Annan

Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don't know, they don't know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant.

~ Werley Nortreus

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

~ Pierre Berton

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

~ Audre Lorde

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

~ Dashanne Stokes

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

~ Angie Thomas

Not being a racist is definitely not enough. You have to always stand up and speak against it; whether it's coming from your siblings, parents, relatives or friends. Keeping quiet about racism makes you a part of the problem.

~ Hafiz