Quotations about Racism

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:30 am

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

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so muchattention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shapeof our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each ofus as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to thestarless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peaceand brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmedtruth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~Martin LutherKing, Jr.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. ~Bill Cosby

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. ~Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and thengo down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku KluxKlan

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away fromthose who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses thanourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. ~JosephConrad, Heart of Darkness

Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious. ~Bill Maher

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
~Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because ofrace or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. ~African Proverb

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from theentrance of the first black family to the exit of the last whitefamily. ~Saul Alinsky

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ~Jesse Jackson

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ~Author Unknown

Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and womenjoin the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. ~Desmond Tutu

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom,be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying theirresentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see whitemen cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yousomething and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to ablack man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family hecomes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel