Andrew Gillum Quotes

Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you're seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You're seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.

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

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

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

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

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

Race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

No self respecting white man can ally himself with the President [Theodore Roosevelt] after what has occurred.

Race baiting is the meanest species of politics.

Racism in America has not been completely eradicated. It is a sturdy pestilence. Racism and intolerance raise their heads repeatedly, not only in America but in every land.

That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the niggers in their place.

White identity politics has permeated our rhetoric.

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

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an inevitable one. But the civil-rights movement, along with independence movements around the world, changed that.

As it happens, the National Front has never been guilty of racism.

You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

It hurts to see other people calling Jazz fans racist.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

I never had to deal with racism as a kid, by the grace of God somehow.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

It's a life issue more than anything when you're dealing with racism anywhere... It's a life issue - bigger than sports, bigger than football.