Racist Quotes - Page 15

• If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  59 Copy quote

• I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

  Miranda Richardson

  Tolerance, Walks, Corners

  5 Copy quote

• Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

  Monica Crowley

  Country, America, Human Nature

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Order, Stressed

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are”, p.81, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm racist against non-black people.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Black, Black People

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need segregated buses... This is Obama's America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Needs, Bus

  "Limbaugh says we need to return to ‘segregated buses.’" by Zaid Jilani, thinkprogress.org. September 17, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obama's entire economic program is reparations.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Economic, Program, Reparations

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. October 20, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech, when he got made President and they put all that bullet proof glass in front of him? I think that shows you how racist America still is. Just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anybody.

  Frankie Boyle

  Sorry, Mean, Fighting

  26 Copy quote

• You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

  Jasmine Guy

  Careful, Seems, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Sex, Unions, Discrimination

  7 Copy quote

• There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

  Horace Greeley

  Running, Free Thought, Seeds

  16 Copy quote

• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Father, Drama, Struggle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

  15 Copy quote

• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  George Michael

  Political, Groups, Minorities

  64 Copy quote

• To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

  Joanna Russ

  Class, Usual, Ordinary

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.

  Donna Brazile

  Distance, Opportunity, Language

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Air, White Privilege

  Source: www.ebony.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America's first black president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lying, America, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Typical

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

  Judith Martin

  People, Would Be, Awful

  5 Copy quote

• Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.

  Clare Short

  Attitude, Gay, Ideas

  8 Copy quote

• I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

  Gabby Douglas

  Home, Eye, Night

  "Gabby Douglas' Interview With Oprah Winfrey Sparks Firestorm Online". www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 28, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Racism, Age, Aging

  51 Copy quote

• You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.

  Glenn McGrath

  Past, Racism, Tough Times

  9 Copy quote