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" "Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone" "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen "