Roger Ross Williams Quotes

Racism is kinda old. For real.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

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

I think everyone should understand history of segregation the same way we had to go to school and read about George Washington. I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet. For instance, you can't get the cover of a magazine if your skin is too dark.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

It is a lie that America is racist

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

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

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation.

It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.