Black Racism Quotes:

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

topic: Believe, Color, Racism, Discrimination And Racism, Respectability

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Talking, Racism, Black History Month, Black Racism

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Faith, Peace, Belive, Peace Love

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Kids, Yellow, White, Black Racism

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Black History, Want, Months, Ending Racism, African American History

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

topic: Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love, Kings Speech, Daybreak

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

- Harper Lee

source: To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

topic: Black And White, Men, Racism, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

- Spike Lee

topic: Law, White, America, White Racism, Advancing

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

topic: Men, Race, Color, Race And Color, Racism In America

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

topic: Responsibility, Patriotism, Faces, Discrimination And Racism, Racism In America

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

- Charles Barron

source: "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

topic: White, Racism, Black, White Racism, Anti Racist

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Jobs, Fighting, White, White Racism, Racism In America

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

- Franklin A. Thomas

topic: Freedom, Eye, Unique, Melanin, Discrimination And Racism

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

- Carter G. Woodson

source: Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Religious, Hate, Taken, Inspirational History, Race In America

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Struggle, Men, White, White Racism, Ending Racism

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational History, Striving For Excellence

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Hate, Opportunity, Order, Institutional Racism, Black Racism

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

- John Lennon

topic: Peace, Xmas, Fighting, White Racism, Anti Racism

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Girl, Dream, Boys, White Racism, Holding Hands

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

- Nina Simone

topic: Men, White, Racism, Black Racism

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

- Halle Berry

topic: Kids, Light, Hair, All Black, Straight Hair

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.

- James H. Cone

source: James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

topic: White, Long, Racism, White Power, Anti Racist

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

- George Washington Carver

source: "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.

topic: Hater, Fear, Roots, Jealous Hater, Backstabbing

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

- James Earl Jones

source: James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

topic: Race, Events, Excuse, Indulge, Black Racism

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Color, Racism, People, Black Racism

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

- Halle Berry

topic: Racism, Black, Faces, Black Racism

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

- Huey Newton

source: Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers

topic: Fighting, Two, Racism, Two Evils, Black Racism

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Racism, Excuse, Ethnic Identity, African American History, African American History Month

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

- Thurgood Marshall

topic: Challenges, Discrimination, Accomplished, Racial Discrimination, Eliminating

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Inspirational, Country, Mean, White Racism, Racism In America

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

- Huey Newton

topic: Gun, Hands, Racism, Black Racism

People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.

- Van Jones

source: Source: pen.org

topic: Party, Racism, People, Black Racism

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

topic: Racism, Black, Racist, Black Racism