Otto Weininger Quotes

The negro, whom a million Americans died to free, is, in present bond and future promise still a slave, whipped by circumstance, trodden under foot by iron and ineradicable prejudice; shut out forever from the opportunities which are the heritage of liberty, and, holding in his black hand the hollow parchment of his franchise as a freeman, looks through a slave's eyes at the impassable barriers which imprison him forever within the progress and achievement of a dominant and all-conquering race.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

I found everywhere now the most direct antagonism between the two classes. The whites charge generally that the negro is idle, and at the bottom of all local disturbances, and credit him with most of the vices and very few of the virtues of humanity. The negroes charge that the whites are revengeful, and intend to cheat the laboring class at every opportunity, and credit them with neither good purposes nor kindly hearts..

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

I doubted that the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored, typical coon who blacks my shoes every morning was fit for citizenship.

There is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people to remain with us ... Even when you cease to be slaves, you are far removed from being placed on an equality with the white man ... I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact

It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the State [instead of colonizing them]? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites, ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained, new provocations, the real distinctions which nature has made, and many other circumstances will divide us into parties and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.

A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a white man likes him or not.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

Negroes are almost too ignorant to eat, scarcely wise enough to breathe, mere existing human machines.

You complain that Negroes are a base class. Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.