Jim Goad Quotes

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

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

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

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

That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was told to stop his demonstrations; they were against the law and all of that. Now that he's sainted and sanctified we've forgotten.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I have never been racist.

It is now time to mobilize, before it is too late, against the creeping legitimacy of racism in our society.

Our duty is to fight! Then we can adjust the problems that remain in the life of the colored man.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

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.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.