2,209 Quotes About Racism

Consciousness over Color, Intelligence over Ignorance

Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone.

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.

We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to not be racist. Now let's know how to be antiracist.

Every first-year medical students takes anatomy and must dissect a human cadaver. Therefore, every doctor knows that under that skin we all have the same physical parts. What we can’t see is the soul. That, my friends, also exists below and above the skin.How do I know? Because God is in everyone or God is in no one.

I am a Negro and I know, being dark, I have been due in the past to see dark days, but them days is passing. All the fiery crosses in the world is not going to scare me back into where I were before the Harlem riots, Martin Luther King, Adam Powell, and Malcolm X. Also, I might include that lady, Annie Lee Cooper, who hit Sheriff Clark in the eye in Alabama. When a Southern colored woman hits a Southern white sheriff in the eye in a public place like Selma, a new day has come.

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

The hierarchy of most workplaces in America looks very much like climbing high mountains—the higher you get, the whiter the scenery becomes.