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Racism Quotes

Honest reflections on bias and prejudice.

One quote here describes an uncomfortable, secondhand kind of racism, standing among friends when a remark slips out that would never be said at a family gathering. Another distills the issue to its root, arguing that any belief in one group's superiority over another leads directly to racism.

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

Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

Quotes by William Julius Wilson

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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Quotes by Wentworth Miller

Black Quotes

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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

Quotes by Walter Lang

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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

Quotes by Walt Handelsman

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To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.

Quotes by Ty Dolla Sign

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There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Quotes by Trevor Noah

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I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

Quotes by Tony Evans

Country Quotes

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Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced...

Quotes by Tony Evans

A sharper line names political hypocrisy alongside racism as things that provoke real anger, while a historical reflection looks back at a period of rising inequality decades ago. For related reading, see our black quotes and country quotes pages.