Quotes and Sayings About Racist
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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
