2,209 Quotes About Racism

The virtue of bigotry is ignorance; the intrinsic quality of ignorance is bigotry.

It takes courage and humility to accept and embrace one’s ignorance, that it knows too little or nothing at all.

Some of the customers would ask me, “Why are Kurds so hated in Turkey and Iraq?” As if I were responsible for dissecting idiocy and ignorance, as if cruelty and racism had a philosophical theory I was supposed to recite because I belonged to its victimized group. No one ever asked, “How does it feel to be a Kurd in a hateful world?

Your ignorance may be innocent but the racism is real. I want both of you to think about how what you said might make me feel.

It is cruel to hate others for being a different race. In fact, all racists —white, black, pink, or brown — are a threat to the human race.

It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it.

Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.

Nationalism, tribalism & patriotism are the playthings of the ignorant and abhorrent.

There comes a time in everyone's life where if you have intellectual curiosity and an inquisitive mind, you assess the prejudices learned from family and the environment in which you've grown up in — and make a decision to either reject it, or take comfort in remaining ignorant.