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." "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"