Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.

Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would talk with me about identity. I don't have issues with identity, I just follow this kind of feminine beauty because I became a victim of my art, which I think is the best thing for an artist. So many artists use their talent, but with the best artists, their talent uses them.

The fact is Donald Trump is trying to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines, and it's unhealthy for the country.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.

I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.

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.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

The Green Party has the most progressive platform and policies related to issues of social and racial justice.

If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

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

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

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

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

I think it's certainly important that we don't have symbols in our society that are offensive to a segment and that arouse racial division.

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?