Ruby Bridges 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 and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

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

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

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

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

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.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

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

We've never been anti-Semitic.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I will kill every Jew, Catholic and Negro.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Islamaphobia is the only form of racism which is socially acceptable.

Dear Nigger-lover:

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