Racist Quotes - Page 33

• I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Motivation, Writing, Black Youth

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

  Al Gore

  Men, Boys, Racist Jokes

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.

  Mac Miller

  Top 10, Fit, Playlists

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• I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Attitude, Thinking, Discipline

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• To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Encouragement, Past, Understanding

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• Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

  Jasmine Guy

  Insecurity, Height, Judgment

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• I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Racism, Brain

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Life, Dream, Men

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• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Race, People, Support

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• Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

  Sargent Shriver

  Christian, Men, Racism

  "Shriver Moves Into the Front Rank" by Anthony Lewis, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 1964.

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• Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

  Sargent Shriver

  Prejudice, Irrational, Illogical

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racism, Discrimination

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Comedy, Harsh

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

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• No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

  Joe Slovo

  Racism, Vision, Done

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• For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

  Allen West

  War, Long, Soldier

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Change, Fool, Behinds

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Cactus, Aliens

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• To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hate, Evil, Imagination

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.50, South End Press

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• I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve been playing with dead people since the day I was born, so it’s good thing, yet the Big Bad scared me. Which brings me to the reason I called.” “Which was to give me nightmares for the rest of my life?” “Oh, no, that’s just a plus. Why was I so scared of him?” “Hon, for one thing he was this powerful, massive, black smokelike being.” “So, you’re saying I’m a racist?

  Darynda Jones

  Growing Up, Powerful, People

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• What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

  Patricia Briggs

  Kind, Werewolf

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• It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Race, Judging, Discrimination

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• In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.

  Simon Pegg

  Art, Race, Ideas

  Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.126, Random House

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• White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.

  Constance Backhouse

  Mean, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a certain amount of racist behaviour, a certain amount of this mindset, in the darker recesses of every community. It needs to be called what it is, which is vile and hateful. It's starting a national conversation, which is probably long overdue. Because we do, as a country, have an awkward problem with a certain amount of racism in the hearts of I believe a small number of people, but I still believe we have to chase it out.

  Don Iveson

  Country, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Problem, Reason

  "Aziz Ansari On 'Master Of None' And How His Parents Feel About Acting". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 24, 2017.

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