Quotes about Racism

agree with the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that our nation is splitting into two hostile societies and that the chief destructive cutting edge is white racism.

In Mississippi the murder of civil rights workers is still a popular pastime. In that state more than forty Negroes and whites have either been lynched or murdered over the last three years, and not a single man has been punished for these crimes. More than fifty Negro churches have been burned or bombed in Mississippi in the last two years, yet the bombers still walk the streets

If Western civilization does not now respond constructively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.

Why does misery constantly haunt the Negro?

The southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow, so that when he had no money for food, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a black man.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

Whenever people are separated by racism, the church is to work to manifest the one new humanity Jesus died to create (Eph 2:14).

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.