Quotes about racism

It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

Carola Rackete

Nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Nationalists are saying, "you're disrespecting our flag." Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism.

Steve Kerr - September 2017

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Tolerance Skin

America promises equal opportunity to everyone, no matter who you are. You can go to a good school, get a great job, live in a great house. But non of that is possible without that white man's stamp of approval.

Colin Kaepernick in Colin in Black & White - Season 1 Episode 2

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

Lonnie Johnson

The greatest danger for all of us begins with forgetting. With no longer remembering what we inflict upon one another when we tolerate antisemitism and racism in our midst.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - January 2021

Holocaust Antisemitismus

Let's speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. In times like this, silence is complicity.

Kamala Harris - June 2020

It is not enough to be "not a racist". We have to be anti-racist!

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (as President of Germany) - June 2020

I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.

Michael Jordan - June 2020

2020 Death of George Floyd

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

John Lewis

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Sargent Shriver

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Sargent Shriver

Our constitution includes this wonderful article 1: "Human dignity is inviolable." What we're experiencing every day: Aggression against Jews, aggression against immigrants, violence and hate speech - that's what we have to stand up against!

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - September 2019

Human Rights Dignity German Constitution

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Ayanna Pressley

Humanity Economy

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

Foolishness Opinions Conspiracy Theories

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

Chance The Rapper

I find racism disgusting! If I were younger, I would go into politics.

Astrid Lindgren

Tolerance

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson

Religion

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

Human Rights

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Rosa Parks

Apartheid is the rule of the gun and the hangman.

Nelson Mandela

Worm: "That's my n*gga right there. If you was any bigga, you'd be my 'bigga n*gga'."
Ken Carter: "Sit down. SIT DOWN! N-gger is a degrogatory term used to insult our ancestors. See, if a white man used it, you'd be ready to fight. Your using it teaches him to use it. You're saying it's cool. Well, it's not cool, and when you're around me, I don't want to hear that shit! Are we clear?"

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Tolerance

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Malcolm X

Capitalism

Bob Marley had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - he said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

Robert Neville in I Am Legend

Bob Marley Peace Vision

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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Eminem

Tolerance Kindness

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Pocahontas in Pocahontas

Tolerance

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God Tolerance

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

Tarzan

Tolerance

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

Tolerance

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

Freedom

Children are never born as racists.

Jérôme Boateng - June 2020

Death of George Floyd

We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism.
We must, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.

To all of you hurting: You belong.

You're all America.

Joe Biden - Oktober 2023

Antisemitismus

Vogel: "What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?"
Dr. Henry Jones: "It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!"

Henry Jones in Indiana Jones - 3: and the Last Crusade

National Socialism

Hate burns fast and bright, and it might make you feel empowered for a while, but eventually it consumes whatever vessel it fuels.

Arnold Schwarzenegger - März 2023

Hatred

With clear language and undaunted diplomacy, he has significantly shaped the United States of America and post-war global politics.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - December 2023

Henry Kissinger

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Sargent Shriver

Politics

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Rosa Parks

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley

Greed Selflessness

There are people who seriously think sea rescue activists like me rescue Black lives because we hate white people. Some white people feel personally threatened by the fact that human rights apply to everyone equally.

Carola Rackete

Human Rights

Name one hero who was happy.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Heros

But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Fame

In the last ten days we've had elderly black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo. We've had Asian churchgoers killed in southern California. And now we have children murdered at school. When are we gonna do something?!

Steve Kerr - May 2022

2022 NRA

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee in To kill a Mockingbird

Skin

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

Colin Kaepernick

Brett Favre Green Bay Packers Wisconsin

Being a quarterback isn't an option for me. It's in my blood.

Colin Kaepernick in Colin in Black & White - Season 1 Episode 2

Quarterbacks

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