Racist famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.
-- Al Gore -
I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
-- Al Sharpton -
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
-- Alex Haley -
I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.
-- Alveda King -
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
-- Alvin Ailey -
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
-- Angela Davis -
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
-- Angela Davis -
If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.
-- Angie Harmon -
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
-- Anna Quindlen -
It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
-- Ariel Pink -
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
-- Artur Davis -
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
-- Arundhati Roy -
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty
-- Assata Shakur -
Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
-- Beah Richards -
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
-- Bell Hooks -
I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.
-- Benjamin Carson -
You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.
-- Bill Whittle -
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
-- Billy Bragg -
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
-- Cate Blanchett -
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
-- Chris Crutcher -
It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
-- Chris Lilley -
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.
-- Coleman Young -
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
-- Daniel Tosh -
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
-- Dhani Harrison -
I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.
-- Dick Morris -
Some people are saying, Justin Bieber is racist. Is he? I dont know.
-- Don Lemon -
I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.
-- Donald Sterling -
Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions....
-- dream hampton -
The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.
-- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
-- Edward Said -
Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
-- Eli Roth -
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
-- Erma Bombeck -
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
-- Euripides -
First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
-- Evan Sayet -
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
-- Florynce Kennedy -
Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.
-- Frank Carson -
Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!
-- Frankie Boyle -
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
-- Gary Bauer -
At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.
-- Gary Oldman -
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays...
-- Glenn Reynolds -
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.
-- Helen Fielding -
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
-- Herman Cain -
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
-- Ice T -
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
-- Isaac Hayes -
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
-- Ishmael Reed -
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.
-- James Abourezk -
(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?
-- Jamie Foxx -
You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.
-- Jane Elliott -
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
-- Jane Elliott -
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
-- Jane Elliott -
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
-- Jasmine Guy -
Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
-- Jasmine Guy -
We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
-- Jerry Garcia -
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
-- Joe Slovo -
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.
-- John Derbyshire -
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
-- John H. McWhorter -
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.
-- John Lukacs -
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
-- John Oliver -
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
-- Johnnetta B. Cole -
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
-- Johnny Damon -
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
-- Jonathan Haidt -
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
-- Joseph Barbera -
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?
-- Joy Behar -
it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.
-- Judith Martin -
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
-- Julian Bond -
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
-- Julie Burchill -
I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
-- Kinky Friedman -
I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
-- Kurt Cobain -
I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
-- Lee Whitnum -
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
-- Leo Fender -
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
-- Lynda Barry -
I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.
-- Mac Miller -
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.â€
-- Manning Marable -
Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.
-- Mario Balotelli -
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!
-- Mark Steyn -
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
-- Matt Taibbi -
I’m not a racist. That’s what’s so insane about this,
-- Michael Richards -
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.
-- Michael Z. Williamson -
I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.
-- Mills Lane
