Black Racism Quotes

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

  • 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.

    White   Long   Racism  
    James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books
  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

    Peace   Kings   Truth  
    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964
  • As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

    To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)
  • We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

    Fighting   Two   Evil  
    Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers
  • 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.

    Law   White   America  
  • I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

    "Freeman calls Black History Month ‘ridiculous’". www.today.com. December 15, 2005.
  • I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

    Respect   Believe   Color  
    Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
  • I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

    "Roundtable: NSA, Freeman on Black History Month". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 19, 2005.
  • In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

    The Guardian, January 29, 1992.
  • 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.

    Kids   White   Light  
  • I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

    Girl   Dream   Boys  
  • Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

    Twitter post from Aug 14, 2011
  • 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.

    Jobs   Fighting   White  
  • Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

    James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Racism   Black   Faces  
  • One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  • 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.

    White   Racism   Black  
    "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.
  • 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.

    Racism   Black   Firsts  
  • 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.

    Religious   Hate   Race  
    Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC
  • The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

    Color   Racism   Lines  
    The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)
  • The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

    Gun   Hands   Racism  
  • 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.

    Color   Racism   People  
  • Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

  • 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.

    Love   Faith   Peace  
    "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.
  • From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

    Men   White   Racism  
  • I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press
  • And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

    Peace   Xmas   Fighting  
  • Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

    Hater   Fear   Roots  
    "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.
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