Racism Quotes

Racism is the belief that there are differences and elements inherited by people's character and / or abilities and attributed to their belonging to a group or race - regardless of how the concept of race is defined - thus justifying the treatment of individuals belonging to this group differently socially and legally. The term is also used to refer to practices that are from During which a specific group of people is treated differently and this distinction is justified by the treatment by resorting to generalizations based on stereotypes and by resorting to scientific fabrications. It is every feeling of superiority, behavior, practice or policy based on exclusion, marginalization and discrimination between people on the basis of color, national or ethnic affiliation.

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

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. 

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Our true nationality is mankind.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Achievement has no color.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.