Racism Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
- Frederick Douglass
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Everyone should be colorblind to see the beauty of people.
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.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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
Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught.
- Denis Leary
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 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
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
- African Proverb
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.
To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
- E. E. Cummings
Accomplishments have no color.
- Leontyne Price