Herman Cain Quotes

You face racism in small and large ways.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

Negroes are almost too ignorant to eat, scarcely wise enough to breathe, mere existing human machines.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives under that skeptical eye.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

I think everybody's gone through some racist moment in their life.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

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

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Human prejudice—especially that growing out of race and religion—is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

[The Negro is] an inferior race, who in all ages, and in every part of the globe, ... has shown themselves incapable of self-government.

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.

Thought the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resisted at every step of his progress.