Racism quotes

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◆ As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

- Harper Lee100

◆ I love pandas, they're so chill. They are all like 'Dude, racism is stupid. I'm White, Black, and Asian...'

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◆ I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

- Miriam Makeba99

◆ The biggest problem though out the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly.

- Erik Hansen99

◆ In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ The biggest problem throughout the history of man is the fact that racism is anything but an anomoly

- Erik Hansen99

◆ Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

- A Whitney Brown99

◆ When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

- Clarence Thomas99

◆ A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

- Saul Alinsky99

◆ Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

- Eminem99

◆ When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

- Clarence Thomas99

◆ It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

- James Arthur Baldwin99