The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country. – Andrea Navedo
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. – Billy Graham
I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against the Left’s style of orthodoxy. – Andrew Breitbart
When I was growing up, I never heard the word ‘racism.’ It was only in Paris I encountered that. – Azzedine Alaia
Sure, there’s a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It’s an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans. – Artur Davis
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism. – Cristina Saralegui
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. – Cate Blanchett
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. – Betty Buckley
I’ve written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. – bell hooks
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. – Bob Cousy
There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism. – Benjamin Todd Jealous
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. – Cornel West
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. – Billy Bragg
The book, ‘Citizen,’ begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact. – Claudia Rankine
We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It’s not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law. – Al Sharpton
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. – Alveda King
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. – Al Sharpton
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those ‘others’. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. – Alija Izetbegovic
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains. – Bill Cosby
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. – Coretta Scott King
There’s a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively. – Chelsea Handler
African-Americans know about racism, but I don’t think we really know the causes. I decided it’s first of all a family problem. – Bebe Moore Campbell
Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. – Denis Leary
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president. – Douglas Wilder
