Racism quotes

Racism

849 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Angela Davis
Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar

"Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name."

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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

"Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them."

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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Painter

"Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Racism

"Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society]."

People Want Racism
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Racism

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

Pride Racism Teeth
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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Racism

"Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated."

Hands Ignorance Racism
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Racism

"There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism."

Race Social Racism
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Racism

"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."

Men Racism Gun Control
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Racism

"It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing."

Years Art Racism
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Racism

"The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine."

Kids Racism White Privilege
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Khalid Abdul Muhammad Activist, Minister
Racism

"Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here."

Real Brother Racism
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Racism

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."

Fear Racism Xenophobia
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Racism

"Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience."

Children Ignorance Racism
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Racism

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

Rights Inspiring Racism
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Racism

"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con."

People Gone Racism
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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
Racism

"Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been."

Kind Time Racism
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Racism

"I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds ."

Men Color Racism
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Racism

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."

Education Ignorance Racism
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