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Quotes about Racism

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."
— James H. Cone
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
— Alveda King
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
— Malcolm X
I like Steve Bannon. He is a good man. He is not a racist - I can tell you that. He's a good person, and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.
— Donald Trump
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
— Malcolm X
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
— Malcolm X
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Racism is stupid. It's an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
— Rick Warren