Best racism & black-racism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.”

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Author:Van Jones

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”

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Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.”

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Book:To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

Source: To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

“The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.”

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Author:Huey Newton

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

Source: Negro Makers of History

“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.”

“And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.”

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Author:John Lennon

“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”

“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

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Author:Charles Barron

“From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“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.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.”

Source: Black Theology and Black Power

“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

“Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.”

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Author:Spike Lee

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