Racism Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
Accomplishments have no color.
- Leontyne Price
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism.
- Oprah Winfrey
When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.
Don’t be racist, be like Mario:
He’s an Italian
Made by the Japanese
Who speaks English
And looks like a Mexican.
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
- Christopher Hitchens
From Black Soldiers during the war in Vietnam:
Here lies the YELLOW man, killed by a BLACK man, fighting for the WHITE man who killed all the RED men.
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
- Abraham J. Heschel
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazlitt
Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro- Americans.
Racism is a serious matter & I tend to take it seriously.
But me being a half white & half black child I know what it’s like to be in the middle of racism.
Make love not war.
God made us all different for a reason.
No one has the right to judge anyone but the lord our God.
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
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
- Muhammad Ali
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother- in- law.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people.
- Spike Lee
Ask the blind, who is superior the whites or the blacks.
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
- African Proverb