Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

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

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

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

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 is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

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!

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

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.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

The world is still very bigoted.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.