Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.

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'

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

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

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Racism springs from ignorance.

You face racism in small and large ways.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

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

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.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.