Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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.

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.

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

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'

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

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

I think the president is a racist.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

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

I'm racist against non-black people.

He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.