Racism quotes

“I heard what the police did, and I'm not saying it was right. But you think the blacks wouldn't do the same thing to us, and worse, if they had half the chance? Do you think they'll let us go on living our nice, quiet, peaceful lives if they win? They'll swallow us up!”

Janet Suzman - Susan

“- John McClane: I'll tell you what your problem is, you don't like me 'cause you're a racist!
- Zeus Carver: What?
- John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me 'cause I'm white!
- Zeus Carver: I don't like you because you're gonna get me killed!”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver

“- John McClane: Here take this.
- Zeus Carver: How's it work?
- John McClane: You don't know how to shoot a gun?
- Zeus Carver: Look, all brothers don't know how to shoot guns, you racist motherfucker.
- John McClane: Sue me.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver

“We fought the preliminary for the kikes; now we'll fight the main event for the niggers.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson

“Is there no end to the torture that an Oriental mind can think of?”
Cary Grant - Cutter

“Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless.”

R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman

“- Pvt. Trip: Nigger, you better get your hands off me!
- Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins: Ain't no niggers around here! Understand?
- Pvt. Trip: Oh, I see, so the white man give you a couple a stripes, and suddenly you start hollerin' and orderin' everybody around, like you the massa himself! Nigger, you ain't nothin' but the white man's dog!”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
Morgan Freeman - Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins

“- Hooper X: The black man's no longer gonna play the minstrel in the medium of comics and sci-fi fantasy. We keepin' it real, and we gonna get respect by any means necessary.
- Holden McNeil: Ah, come on, that's a bunch of horse shit! Lando Calrissian was a black guy. You know. He got to fly the Millennium Falcon.”
Dwight Ewell - Hooper X
Ben Affleck - Holden McNeil

“- Enid: So, I don't really get it... Are you saying that things were better back then, even though there was stuff like this?
- Seymour: I suppose things are better now, but... I don't know, it's complicated. People still hate each other but they just know how to hide it better. Or something.”

Thora Birch - Enid
Steve Buscemi - Seymour

“All the wrong people knew who I was anyways, so I figured I'm just gonna put up a flag and hope a friend sees it.”

Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“What are you doing here, Yardley? Shouldn't you be out night-sticking the colored folk?”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.”
Stanley Anderson - Edwin S. Simon

“- Paulie: I don't like these people.
- Rocky Balboa: You don't like 'em? Well maybe they don't like you either, Paulie.”

Burt Young - Paulie
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
- Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you do not... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Bridges - The Dude
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak

“- Montgomery Brewster: Why is it when there's trouble we're the ones that get into it. I mean, there's a bar full of people and we're the only ones in jail.
- Spike Nolan: I don't think it's racial you know, because I'm in here with you.
- Montgomery Brewster: That's comforting.”
Richard Pryor - Montgomery Brewster
John Candy - Spike Nolan

“- Ira: The penalty for impersonating an officer is five years in prison.
- Harry: Maybe for you, white boy. Me, they hang.”

David Duchovny - Ira
Orlando Jones - Harry

“I rode the bench for two years. Thought I wasn't being played because of my color, I got filled up with a lotta attitude. So I quit. Still not a week goes by I don't regret it.”

Charles S. Dutton - Fortune

“- Iggy: Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?
- Tracy Turnblad: I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration.”
Josh Charles - Iggy
Ricki Lake - Tracy Turnblad

“You were a poet and a painter, William Blake. But now, you're a killer of white men.”
Gary Farmer - Nobody

“- Joanna Drayton: He thinks you're gonna faint because he's a Negro.
- Christina Drayton: Well... I don't think I'm going to faint, but I'll sit down anyway.”
Katharine Houghton - Joanna Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“An old nigger and an old Jew woman taking off down the road together... that is one sorry sight!”

Ray McKinnon - Alabama trooper #1

- Giosuè: Why aren't Jews or dogs allowed to go in?
- Guido: They just don't want Jews or dogs to go in. Everybody does what they want to, Giosuè. There's a hardware store there. They don't let Spanish people or horses into his store. Further ahead, there's a drugstore. Yesterday, I was with a Chinese friend who had a kangaroo. I said: “May we?"... (continue)(continue reading)
Giorgio Cantarini - Giosuè
Roberto Benigni - Guido

“What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without running into one of them.”
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton

“I don't see why white man has to sit in a nigger electric chair. White man should have his own damn electric chair.”
Sam Rockwell - Wild Bill' Wharton

- Hawkeye: Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
- Cora Munro: Oh, he did?
- Hawkeye: He said "Do not try to understand them".
- Cora Munro: What?
- Hawkeye: Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye
Madeleine Stowe - Cora Munro