Racism Quotes
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![Harper Lee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1593873322i/1825._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
![Angie Thomas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1471998209i/15049422._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518558i/23924._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
― I Have a Dream
― I Have a Dream
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Audre Lorde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613651890i/18486._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
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![Muhammad Ali](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1323184538i/46261._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
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![Kathryn Stockett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233458107i/1943477._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
![Toni Morrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1494211316i/3534._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
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![Junot Díaz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1487667538i/55215._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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![Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1595285597i/1214964._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
![Kofi Annan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206591694i/275494._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
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![Haile Selassie I](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1450925027i/290203._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”
- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Selected Speeches
- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Selected Speeches
![Elie Wiesel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255518412i/1049._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
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“The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...
Everything is war. Me say war.
That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...
Until the color of a man's skin is of
no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”
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Everything is war. Me say war.
That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...
Until the color of a man's skin is of
no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”
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![Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628721308i/19992417._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
![Abraham Lincoln](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518158i/229._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Lincoln Letters
― Lincoln Letters
![Thurgood Marshall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249442209i/331989._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
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“We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.”
― I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks
― I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks
“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”
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![Angela Y. Davis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1643594354i/5863103._UX200_CR0,59,200,200_.jpg)
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
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