65 Racism Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing racism sayings.
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Short Racism Sayings
“Discrimination is a disease.” —Roger Staubach
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Achievement has no color.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Racism springs from ignorance.” —Mario Balotelli
“Our true nationality is mankind.” —H.G. Wells
“There is only one race, the human race.” —Unknown
“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.” —Steven Patrick Morrissey
“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” —Frederick Douglass
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” —Toni Morrison
“Racism? But isn’t it only a form of misanthropy?” —Joseph Brodsky
“Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.” —Unknown
“Racism is ridiculous no matter where it’s coming from.” —Alan Ball
“You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.” —Malcolm X
“Let’s practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.” —Zendaya
“Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination.” —T. F. Hodge
“Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.” —Jayson Blair
“Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.” —Auliq Ice
“Racism will only end when the past is forgotten, which isn’t likely.” —Unknown
“We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.” —Angela Davis
“Racism is a social disease that thrives on willful ignorance.” —Timothy McGettigan
“Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.” —Walter Lang
“Racism is something you learn not something you are born with.” —Unknown
“Racism is something we learn not something we are born with.” —Unknown
“What age is a black boy when he learns he’s scary?” —Jonathan Lethem
“The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.” —Tim Wise
“Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught.” —Denis Leary
“Excellence is the best restraint to racism or sexism.” —Oprah Winfrey
Racism Sayings
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.” —John Lewis
“Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.” —Habeeb Akande
“Whites are not the only people in this world to be racist. Racism comes in all colors just like everything else does.” —Unknown
“Never trust anyone who says they do not see color.this means to them, you are invisible.” —Nayyirah Waheed
“There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.” —Florynce Kennedy
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war.” —Bob Marley
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.” —Muhammad Ali
“It is impossible to eliminate racism without first acknowledging all of its perpetrators.” —Charles R. Ridley
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.” —Nelson Mandela
“You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.” —Bobby Seale
“All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.” —Roger Ross Williams
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racist make them.” —Elie Wiesel
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Judging someone by the color of their skin is ignorant. Their skin complexion has nothing to do with their morals, beliefs or intelligence.” —Unknown
“We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.” —Sagent Shriver
“To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.” —E. E. Cummings
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” —Elie Wiesel
“The best way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” —John Roberts
“Our global community has come a long way in helping to eliminate discrimination, but we still have far to go.” —Robert Alan Silverstein
“There is beauty in difference. No one is born a racist! Teach love and respect and welcome diversity.” —Unknown
“Racists always try to make you think they are the majority, but they never are.” —Toni Morrison
“The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.” —Sargent Shriver
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone.” —Alan Dershowitz
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.” —Charles Caleb Colton
“You are not alone. We are with you. Put a stop to discrimination. Put a stop to hate. Put a stop to racism…Long live love, long live peace.” —Ricky Martin
“Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.” —Thomas Sowell
Top Ten Racism Sayings
Here you will find top ten racism sayings selected by our team.
- “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
- “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.” —Muhammad Ali
- “Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.” —Steven Patrick Morrissey
- “There is only one race, the human race.” —Unknown
- “Our global community has come a long way in helping to eliminate discrimination, but we still have far to go.” —Robert Alan Silverstein
- “Judging someone by the color of their skin is ignorant. Their skin complexion has nothing to do with their morals, beliefs or intelligence.” —Unknown
- “The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.” —Sargent Shriver
- “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” —Elie Wiesel
- “Whites are not the only people in this world to be racist. Racism comes in all colors just like everything else does.” —Unknown
- “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.” —Charles Caleb Colton
