Quotes tagged ‘racism’

“Ash: Alright, look, we get this done quick enough, we might have time to stop for churros. And look, that's not a racist thing, Pablo. That's just a great dessert. Pablo: You know I'm not Mexican, right? Ash: That's the spirit!”

— Sean Clements, Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ray Santiago, imdb.com

“You want help? Fine. Let me tell you a story. 'Once upon a time, a man got fucked.' Now, how is that for a story? 'Cause that's the story of black people in America! Shit, you all don't know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment…”

— Maria Melnik, Mr. Nancy, Orlando Jones, imdb.com

“It can bother me. But the racist thing is just bullshit. I used a word that was taboo. And I used that word because it was taboo. I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people. I didn’t want to support racism. When I used the wo…”

— Axl Rose, rollingstone.com

“We’d been told we’re the perfect house band for David Duke’s America. And it’s like, fuck David Duke, I don’t like being associated with that. I asked the crowd: 'Is that what you get out of this, that we’re racists and you’re supporting it? ‘Cause that’s not the case.' I asked: 'Is that all you’re…”

— Axl Rose, rollingstone.com

“I get that being reduced to a race-based generalization is a new and devastating experience for some of you. But here’s the difference: my jokes don’t incarcerate your youth at alarming rates or make it unsafe for you to walk around your own neighborhoods. But yours do. When you mock or belittle us,…”

— Justin Simien, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

“Oh, you think the black man has a monopoly on suffering? You have no clue what black women go through, probably ‘cause you can’t get close to one, ‘cause you’re fucking whack. We deal with the same shit society heaps on you, then turn around and deal with the shit you heap on us.”

— Leann Bowen, Joelle Brooks, Ashley Blaine Featherson, imdb.com

“Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery. White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany. Everyone: What?! White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Rashid Bakr, Jeremy Tardy, imdb.com

“They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion.”

— Christopher Columbus, eada.lib.umd.edu

“These people are very simple as regards the use of arms, as your Highnesses will see from the seven that I caused to be taken, to bring home and learn our language and return; unless your Highnesses should order them all to be brought to Castile, or to be kept as captives on the same island; for wit…”

— Christopher Columbus, americanyawp.com

“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”

— Robert Mugabe, observer.com

“Whiteness needs a villain in order to persist, and whiteness isn't above inventing them.”

— Joshua Rivera, gq.com

“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the ti…”

— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org

“My forebears were Confederates...but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“It is logical that the exploiters, who for centuries practiced racism against the Negro population, now label as racists all those who struggle against racism.”

— Fidel Castro, marxists.org

“Sullivan’s arrival transformed Keller’s life in several ways. Not only did she learn to communicate, but she learned about race from Sullivan and began to visit the North with her Yankee teacher.”

— Erin Blakemore, daily.jstor.org

“A little nigger boy about 11 or 12 years old came bumming around….I left him there, but first I committed sodomy on him and then I killed him….His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and he will never be any deader.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“To some of average intelligence, killing six at once seems an almost impossible feat. It was very much easier for me to kill those six niggers than it was for me to kill only one of the young boys I killed later and some of them were only 11 or 12 years old.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around the world. While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”

— Sanofi US, twitter.com

“You tell me which of these children's mothers are a 'son of a b.' That is racism. You cannot deny it, you cannot run from it. I kneel in honor of them....I kneel in front of the flag on the House floor. I kneel in honor of the First Amendment. I kneel because the flag is a symbol for freedom. I knee…”

— Sheila Jackson Lee, chron.com

“I noted that this individual came toward me and took a picture. I heard later that she might have said ‘I know who she is.’ Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target…”

— Sheila Jackson Lee, nydailynews.com