2,209 Quotes About Racism

But you said there was no defense.""There ain't.""Then what do I do?""Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

You’re never sure when a conversation about race and racism will turn into one where you were scared for your physical safetyor social position

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it's an act of revolution.

Achievement has no color

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to schoollike lunch, or the flu,fed him by his adopted white father who saidthat's what we calledthem then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had beenbothering them, some thing utterly humanas hate.

The world’s heart is on fire, and race is at its core. What’s happening in the world today is the result of past actions. The bitter racial seeds from past beliefs and actions are blooming all around us, reflecting not only a division of races that is rooted in ignorance and hate, but also, and more solely, a division of heart.

We must teach our young that racism is the ultimate curse against humanity!