Shaun King Quotes

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

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

This is a racist country.

You face racism in small and large ways.

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

Human prejudice—especially that growing out of race and religion—is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

Existing legal discriminations on account of color are not based on character or conduct, and have no relation to moral worth and fitness for civic usefulness, but are rather relics of prejudice which had its origin in slavery. I recommend their total repeal.

Slavery is a slow poison to the morals of any community where it exists.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences—deep, corrosive, obstinate differences—radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

No Negro, mulatto, or Indian shall from and after the publication of this act bear any office ecclesiastical, civil or military, or be in any place of public trust or power, within this her majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia

When education will reduce the large size of the Negro’s penis, as well as bring about the sensitiveness of the terminal fibers which exist in the Caucasian, then will it also be able to prevent the African’s birthright to sexual madness and excess.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.

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

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.