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Racism Quotes

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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

I say that the Lega is not racist, but be careful: encouraging certain impulses can lead to racism.

Pier Luigi Bersani

A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)

The black people’s struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

Muammar Gaddafi

If we are complacent, we might awake all the demons that have troubled the life of Europe: racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism can spread like a fire, whenever the vigilance of governments and civil society decreases.

Traian Băsescu

"This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man."

Jean-Paul Sartre Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

Henry Morganthau, was openly racist and devoted to propaganda.

Bruce Fein Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

In any case, I am a rock-hard racist, sadist and fascist. That is what I enjoy. Mercy is sickness.

Pekka Siitoin

[National-Socialism is] not only narrow and selfish but arrogant [with a] very weak scientific foundation [for its racial philosophy].

Subhas Chandra Bose

I try not to have a victim mentality … there’s racism, there’s the question of women, etc. I always say to myself, “Okay, what can I do to change the status quo?” It’s about making things better.

Ncoza Dlova

The transatlantic slave trade is one of the biggest crimes in the history of humankind. And we continue to live in its shadow. We can only move forward by confronting the racist legacy of slavery together.

António Guterres

If confirmed, I will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault, to rid our ranks of racists and extremists, and to create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country with dignity.

Lloyd Austin

The racists are having their revenge.

Stephen L. Carter Trump and the Fall of Liberalism (2016)

I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they don't necessarily like him that much, and they don't necessarily agree with him. They're not racist or rednecks, they're actually pretty decent people…

Michael Moore

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again — as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man.

Malcolm X Attributed Malcolm X: The Seeker of Justice (2003)

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