Racism Quotes

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong." "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" "There is no vaccine for racism." "We're all people. When I'm a person, there's no such thing as black, white, nothing." "I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down." "If this is a man, I was, and I was sent to the end of the Nazi hell on earth because of my racial category and my politics" "I'm not saying all Republicans are racist, but if you are a racist you’re probably a Republican" "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate" "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists" "In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage." "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "To call someone anti-American, indeed to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination." "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "But race is the child of racism, not the father"