Racism Quotes - page 4

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help. (Mario Balotelli)
Racism springs from ignorance. View quote
Mario Balotelli
Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself. View quote
Mario Balotelli
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change. View quote
Nalini Nadkarni
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly. View quote
Phylicia Rashad
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. View quote
Patricia Ireland
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. View quote
Patricia Ireland
I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times. View quote
Robert Guillaume
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. View quote
Robert Guillaume
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. View quote
Robert Guillaume
I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself. (Russell Peters)
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. View quote
Stanley Crouch
The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know. View quote
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. View quote
Sargent Shriver
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease. View quote
Sargent Shriver
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world. View quote
Tyson Fury
Cultural relativism dictates that all cultures are equally moral and valuable-though in practice, Western culture is often presented as inferior to all others, stained as it supposedly is by racism and imperialism. View quote
Geert Wilders
My feelings were reaffirmed during the summer of 1968 as a result of the lingering stench of racism in Savannah and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. No matter what the reasons were, I closed out the sixties as one angry young man waiting on the revolution that I was certain would soon come. I saw no way out. I, like many others, felt the deep chronic agony of anomie and alienation. All seemed to be defined by race. We became a reaction to the 'man', his ominous reflection. View quote
Clarence Thomas
The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike? View quote
Clarence Thomas
Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way. View quote
Doug Stanhope
An all-too-common reaction to something like racism is to hate the act so much you dismiss the person. But in [American History X] you're forced to confront the complexity of the character and his tragedy - and the fact, which people don't want to recognise, that someone like him can come out of a normal middle-class home. (Edward Norton)
The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms reduction agreements, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction threatens to increase and conventional arms continue to be amassed in many parts of the world. As racism becomes recognized for the destructive force it is and as apartheid is being dismantled, new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence. Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life all over the globe. The revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice. But progress also brings new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it. View quote
Jim Clyburn
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. View quote
Ayn Rand
Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority-but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority. View quote
Ayn Rand