Racism quotations

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◆ I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

- Thurgood Marshall99

◆ Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

- William Pickens99

◆ I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.

- Kathryn Stockett99

◆ The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

- Frederick Douglass99

◆ When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

- Lee Benson99

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

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

- V.S. Naipaul99

◆ Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

- Robert F. Kennedy99

◆ What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

- Harper Lee99

◆ I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

- William Faulkner99

◆ Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

- James Baldwin99

◆ Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

- Malcolm X99