I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘
Kevin HartI never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.
Maya AngelouWhen I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie RobinsonA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouRacism, 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.
Desmond TutuAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheI wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Dolores HuertaThe penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. MenckenI have to be seen to be believed.
Queen Elizabeth III continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
Alice WalkerI get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.
Kevin HartUnfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
Dan QuayleThe fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand RussellBarack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. ColeThere are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
David ByrneYup, the whole birther movement was racist.
Colin PowellI should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
Abraham LincolnAll black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Muhammad AliI detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson MandelaA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldI hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
Kanye WestThe realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Michelle ObamaPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel JohnsonWashington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Noam ChomskyTrump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.
Colin PowellHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliThe policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey NewtonRacism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisDon’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
Isaac NewtonIf I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?
Charles BukowskiIn the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.
Desmond TutuFacts are stubborn things.
Ronald ReaganGeorge Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Kanye WestTo me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice WalkerThere’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Jordan PetersonMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle ObamaThe white man is destroying the world.
Muhammad AliThe most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand RussellIf segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
Kamala HarrisI had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie RobinsonYou know what should be banned? Stuff that’s whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
Kanye WestA statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
AristotleAll 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.
Kanye WestI think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.
Jimmy CarterThe progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry AdamsEarly on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
Maya AngelouSometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
EminemI have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond TutuThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. JohnsonRacism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.
Dolores HuertaIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
Jimmy CarterWhite people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.
Muhammad AliAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl SaganI grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.
Alice WalkerAfter two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
Jackie RobinsonIn the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.
Noam ChomskyWhat can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher HitchensThe object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
Margaret Atwood