Donald Sterling Quotes

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how well we know folks, or how much we consider them peers, or how much social capital we've invested in them. That has to do with race, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. We have a tendency to bend over backwards to forgive folks we think of as part of "the us." The question of who we define as "the us" is a lot of what constitutes how we punish who we punish.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

White people are getting more and more angry every day, Donald Trump was elected that the mask of civility - like an onion peeling - is being peeled off. Now naked hatred, not only in word but in deed, is being openly shown to us.

What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.

Murder and lying comes easy for white people.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word "multicultural," you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.

Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.