Racism is the opium that has been continuously paralyzing and poisoning human race soon after its advent. Ironically colors that teach the beauty of diversity have been used by people to differentiate and deprive some of the basic rights to life. It is the prejudice created in the society that looks down upon some people due to their economic backwardness or their kinship. These famous bias/prejudice quotations and sayings will bring forth the gravity of this social evil.
Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.
Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.
Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.
As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
I know I'm the only white guy on the bus. I usually am.
In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.
You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.
Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.
It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.
Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.
I believe that racism is a problem, and we need to do something about it.
Racism is real in this country.
I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.
I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.
I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds - you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.
I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Of course I've felt racism.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the '70s and I grew up more in the '80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.
Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.
This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
