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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Animal, Race

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Voting, Next

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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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• (I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

  Jamie Foxx

  White, Racism, People

  "Jamie Foxx Defends ‘I Kill All the White People’ Joke" by The Grio, www.ebony.com. December 14, 2012.

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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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• 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 yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yellow, People, Talent

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• Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House  has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Party, Character

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• Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Distance, Party, Winning

  "Andrew Breitbart on 'Hannity': 'This Is Not About Shirley Sherrod'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists - but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those comparisons. ... Working-class people are hurting - and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job - it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hurt, Jobs, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

  Audre Lorde

  Writing, Circles, Racism

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.

  Azealia Banks

  Girl, Country, Teenage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

  Donald Trump

  Illegal Things, People, Mexican

  "Divided Mexico unites against Trump: 'He has no respect for human beings'" by Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2015.

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• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  Donald Trump

  Flirting, Hate Him, Real Women

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: How to Get Rich”, p.223, Random House

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• Hymies." And "Hymietown.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Party, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, August 26, 2004.

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