Racist Quotes

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

  Denis Leary

  Powerful, Hate, Son

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• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  Harry S. Truman

  Uncles, Hate, Men

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• I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Voting, Next

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• You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

  Joe Biden

  Racism, Dunkin Donuts, Stupid Liberal

  "Biden explains Indian-American remarks". www.nbcnews.com. July 7, 2006.

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• You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Stupid, Views, Imagine

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• I don't want you to look at my skin and think "white" or look at my heritage and think "Mexican." I want you to look at me and see me as a human being, and hopefully, we can get past all of this other stuff. It's asking a lot, of course, but there's only one way you fight extremists on both sides, whether it be racist or not, and that's by looking past me, getting bigger than that, letting them not affect you, drawing from it and sticking together with the like-minded people you have around you.

  Ryan Guzman

  Fighting, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Doe, Trials

  "Talk:Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics". Interview with David Shankbone, en.wikinews.org. December 3, 2007.

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• Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

  Rosa Parks

  Children, Powerful, Racism

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• We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

  Marion Barry

  Dirty, Opening Up, Racism

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• Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Stupid, Hateful

  "Hey Rush Limbaugh: Keep Digging" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. September 19, 2008.

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Racism, Hatred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.86, Macmillan

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• The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

  Bill Whittle

  Winning, Definitions, Argument

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• They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Population, Care, Hell

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• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

  Coretta Scott King

  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

  William J. Clinton

  Coffee, Years, Racism

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  Iris Chang

  Hard Times, Racism, Slides

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• I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

  Charles Barron

  White, Racism, Black

  "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

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• I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

  Paris Hilton

  Racism, Guy, Black

  "Leaked Book Excerpt: Paris Hilton 'Can't Stand' Black Men". Interview with Neil Strauss (1999), as published in his book "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead", rollingout.com. January 4, 2011.

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• White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, White, People

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• The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

  Tim Holden

  Powerful, Responsibility, Racism

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

  Ruth Benedict

  Racism, History, Decision

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Men, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.171, A&C Black

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• Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Racism, People, Scared

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