Best Racism Quotes

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.

The ultimate logic of racism is genocide.

Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism springs from ignorance.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Our true nationality is mankind.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of man-made policies.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

is it necessary for every good white person to walk around feeling uncomfortable about themselves as abstractly complicit in a racist system before we see political change?

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for – that’s how racism works.

Racism is a very confusing word these days. But when I say that White Fragility is a racist book, what I mean is it does not allow Black people to be full human beings, because full human beings deal with the imperfections of life.

The [basketball] floor comes easy; I’ve been doing that for a long time. But what’s not easy is growing up black in America.

Every Black filmmaker you love, has at least 10 projects that he can’t get made in Hollywood. Sequels that fans scream for, don’t get made because of the system in place. The world is missing out and it’s a shame cause the money is there 10 folds.

I have said — and this is something very different — that colonialist Europe has grafted modern abuse onto ancient injustice, hateful racism onto old inequality.

Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Denying racism is the new racism.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Racism is America’s greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.