Charles Evers Quotes

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

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

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

You face racism in small and large ways.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm anti-white.

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don’t wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on the planet.

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.