Spike Lee Quotes

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington.

For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.

Anti-racism is one of our central values and there was a time not long ago when the left actively confronted anti-Semitism.

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

I have never been racist.

It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

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