Racism quotes

322 racism quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- General Friedrich Fromm: What is it you want?
    - General Friedrich Olbricht: I wanted to introduce our new man, Colonel Stauffenberg.
    - General Friedrich Fromm: Ah! From Africa. Well, I'd offer you my hand, but I might not get it back.”

    Tom Wilkinson - General Friedrich Fromm
    Bill Nighy - General Friedrich Olbricht
    [Tag:hand, meeting, racism]
  • I sucked so bad they used to pick me after the white kids. They used to say "Man I can't believe I picked a nigga that can't play".

    Chris Rock - Caretaker
    [Tag:football, racism]
  • “You know the way to sell hate? Affirmative action, immigration, crime, tax reform... He says, noone wants to be called a bigot anymore because Archie Bunker made that too uncool. So, the idea is under all these issues... everyday Americans can accept it. Support it. Until eventually, one day he gets somebody in the White House that embodies it.”

    Ken Garito - Sergeant Trapp
    [Tag:hatred, racism]
  • “- Seaweed: Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Who'd have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow?
    - Penny Pingleton: In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never goin' back!”

    Elijah Kelley - Seaweed
    Amanda Bynes - Penny Pingleton
    [Tag:love, racism, skin]
  • “Goose, you a half-breed too, huh? Part turkey?”

    Jim Cummings - Steele
    [Tag:insult, racism]
  • “How many of us you think they gonna kill in retaliation? With their 12-gauge pump-actions, their Colt automatics, their Remingtons, their helicopters, their tanks! We won't win that way, and I ain't talking about the Bible. I ain't talking what's right by God. I am talking facts. Cold, hard facts! Now you take two of them, and they take 10 of...” (continue)(continue reading)

    André Holland - Andrew Young
    [Tag:racism, weapons, winning]
  • “There's a Mexican in my pool and he's not pushing a lawn mower.”

    Michael Angarano - Sid
    [Tag:racism]
  • “- Gerhard Hardman: It is out of respect for both that I like to keep them separated. To mix your red wine and your white would be to ruin them both.
    - Miss Mary Debenham: [pouring her red wine into her white] I like a good rosé.”

    Willem Dafoe - Gerhard Hardman
    Daisy Ridley - Miss Mary Debenham
    [Tag:metaphors, racism, wine and spirits]
  • “If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb.”

    Queen Latifah - Motormouth Maybelle
    [Tag:racism]
  • “Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every white lawman who abuses the law to terrorize. Every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred. Every white preacher who preaches the Bible and stays silent before his white congregation.”
    David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    [Tag:ethnicity, murder, racism]
  • “Gypsies get beaten! Gypsies must be slaves.”

    Alexandru Bindea - Priest on the road
    [Tag:racism, slavery, violence]
  • - Vasquez: I'm Mexican, cabrón. No such thing as a "Texican".
    - Goodnight Robicheaux: Try telling that to my granddaddy. He died at the Alamo. New Orleans Greys, long barracks, bayonets. Blood, teeth. Mauled by a horde of teeming brown devils.
    - Vasquez: My grandfather was one of those devils, you know. Toluca Battalion. Hey, maybe my... (continue)
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    Manuel Garcia-Rulfo - Vasquez
    Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux
    [Tag:ethnicity, killing, racism]
  • “I wouldn't give it no more thought than wringing a cat's neck! And there ain't a court in Mississippi that'd convict me for it.”

    Michael Rooker - Frank Bailey
    [Tag:killing, racism]
  • “Oh my God! There's colored people in my house! I'm going to make a citizen's arrest!”

    Jo Ann Havrilla - Prudence Pingleton
    [Tag:ethnicity, police, racism]
  • “Nigger, negro, black, African-american, no matter how you see me, you see me different, you see me like that jury sees me, you are them. Now throw out your points of law, Jake. If you was on that jury, what would it take to convince you to set me free? That's how you save my ass. That's how you save us both.”

    Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey
    [Tag:lawyers, racism]
  • Let me tell you something about the word "good," brotha. Good is an ancient anglo-saxon word, go-od, meanin the absence of color. I.e. it's all good, which it is, or "Good Will Huntin", meanin, "I'm Huntin' Niggas!". So when you say "good morning", what you are telling me is "I'm gonna kill yo black ass, first thing in the mornin'!".
    Dave Chappelle - Conspiracy Brother
    [Tag:good, killing, racism]
  • “You Samoans are all the same. You have no faith in the essential decency of the white man's culture.”
    Johnny Depp - Raoul Duke
    [Tag:culture, racism]
  • “Seventy-six years, Stephen. How many niggers you think you seen come and go? Seven thousand? Eight thousand? Nine thousand? Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine? Every single word that came out of Calvin Candie's mouth was nothing but horseshit, but he was right about one thing: I am that one nigger in ten thousand.”

    Jamie Foxx - Django
    [Tag:racism, revenge]
  • “- Frankie Fiorello: So first of all I should say that we don't like Irish people.
    - Frankie Fiorello: We don't! That is a well known fact! A big gang of Irish beat Maurizio up and he had to have stitches. And because he cops round here are Irish, nobody did anything about it.
    - Maurizio: There are probably two sides to it. I might have said...” (continue)
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    James DiGiacomo - Frankie Fiorello
    Michael Zegen - Maurizio
    [Tag:fighting, hatred, racism]
  • - Milt Shaw: He's filed a lawsuit, Ray, and it's more than a fine. This guy's got juice, he can get you barred from ever playing "Georgia" again. But he's willing to drop the suit if you make up the gig.
    - Ray Charles: Not if it's segregated.

    David Krumholtz - Milt Shaw
    Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
    [Tag:racism, songs, threat]
  • “Complete separation is the only solution to the black and white problem in this country!”
    Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
    [Tag:inequality, racism]
  • “Remember: no sarcasm, no backtalk. At least not for the first year or so. You're gonna have to let him warm up to you. He hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has nothing but contempt for women, so in your case... it might take a little while. Adiós.”

    David Carradine - Bill
    [Tag:acceptance, racism]
  • “You know how hard they tried to wash us out in flight school? The colored flyers, it was test after test, anything they can come up to turn us into the cooks, the drivers, the shit shovelers, but I refused to wash out, so did Archer, come hell or high water, we hit the books, we were determined not to spend the war being some niggers.”
    Terrence Howard - Lt. Lincoln A. Scott
    [Tag:commitment, racism, war]
  • “I’d rather have an African lion in the White House than a lyin’ African.”
    David Patrick Kelly - General King Kong
    [Tag:africa, army, racism]
  • - Jackie Robinson: You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
    - Branch Rickey: No. I want a player who's got the guts not to fight back. People aren't gonna like this. They're gonna do anything to get you to react. Echo a curse with a curse and, uh, they'll hear only yours. Follow a blow with a blow and they'll say, "The Negro... (continue)
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    Chadwick Boseman - Jackie Robinson
    Harrison Ford - Branch Rickey
    [Tag:fighting, playing, racism]
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