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Racial Quotes

I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression. Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting.

– Michelle Obama

On her depression over Trump’s “hypocrisy.”

I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

– Hideki Tojo

Racial discrimination is illegal. It’s illegal in the United States. It’s illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.

– Jan Brewer

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

– Johan Huizinga

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day – the ‘scientific study of race’ and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

– Jonathan Sacks

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

– James Meredith

When I come out of the box, I don’t come out of the box as racial.

– Jim Brown

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

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

– J. Philippe Rushton

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

– Jimmy Carter

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

– Joe Slovo

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

– Jackie Robinson

As black folks we’re always sensitive. As a black person it’s always racial.

– Jamie Foxx

It’s not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

– Jay Parini

The ‘niche’ effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

– Jonathan Kozol

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

– Iris Chang

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

– Clint Eastwood

You cannot look at a person’s genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

– Craig Venter

Obama’s ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

– Barton Gellman

They don’t pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I’m going to take your head off.

– Bill Goldberg

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

– Brian Sandoval

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

– Barry Commoner

Racial profiling has to stop.

– Bobby Rush

I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

– Aaron Eckhart

In ’42,’ it’s like the ’40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

– Andre Holland

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

– Barry O’Farrell

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

– Mira Nair

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.

– Nicholas Kristof

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

– Eric Holder

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

– Dave Chappelle

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