Peyton List Quotes

I feel like racism isn't over.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

Race is everything.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.