Larry Wilmore Quotes

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Race has no place in American life or law.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

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.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

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.

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

No man’s fundamental rights should depend on the colour of his skin.

The racial inferiority doctrine is beginning to come into disrepute with people of higher education and is no longer supported by the press or by leading public figures

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

Civil Rights is all right for you. You don’t have and Negroes in your district.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

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

I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.