Racism Quotes - Page 17

I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That was a principled, lawful understanding of the role of government, the Constitution. It was not based on racism, on demagoguery, but on strong principles that - which, consistent with the American heritage and our strength for the future.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And, like, how do you stop it? I just want to do my little part in helping try to stop it.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.