Charles Barkley Quotes

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

I have to battle so many issues, and the biggest is racism.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

Slavery was our original sin. Race, our continuing dilemma.

You complain that Negroes are a base class. Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The black herring of intermarriage has been dragged too often across the trail to justice. 'Would you want your sister to marry a nigger?' is still the question that is supposed to stun any white man who sponsors rights for Negroes. It stirs Negroes to ironic laughter, although on all levels they recognize the white man's fear of intermarriage as deep seated…

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

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

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.

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

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.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.