Racism quotes

“- Sethe: You wanna feel something? Feel what it feel like to be a colored woman, roaming the roads, and anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that!
- Paul D: I know every bit of that, Sethe. I wasn't born yesterday, and I never mistreated a woman in my life.
- Sethe: Well, that makes one of you in this world.”
Oprah Winfrey - Sethe
Danny Glover - Paul D

“I have no use for Jews.”
Joely Richardson - Margrete Von Eberstien

“Frankie, when you get to jail, you might want to talk to some of the brothers on your views of racial equality.”
Lenny Henry - Miles Pope

“- Ashtray: Hey, Preach, what up nigga?
- Preach: Y'all need to stop using the word nigga. You see, it's terms like the word nigga that the white man uses to take away the self esteem of another race.
- Ashtray: Word.
- Preach: Oh yeah, remind me to pick my laundry up from that chink motherfucker up the street.”
Shawn Wayans - Ashtray
Chris Spencer - Preach

“- Anne-Marie McCoy: White people never come 'round here except to cause us a problem.
- Helen Lyle: Believe me, that's not what we want to do.”
Vanessa Williams - Anne-Marie McCoy
Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“Segregation today. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!”

Vitamin C - Amber von Tussle
Sonny Bono - Franklin von Tussle

“Civil rights is one thing. This here is something else.”
Isabel Sanford - Tillie

“- Wladyslaw Szpilman: It's an official decree, no Jews allowed in the parks.
- Dorota: What, are you joking?
- Wladyslaw Szpilman: No, I'm not. I would suggest we sit down on a bench, but that's also an official decree, no Jews allowed on benches.”
Adrien Brody - Wladyslaw Szpilman

“- Coed: Mr. X, I've read some of your speeches and I honestly believe a lot of what you say has truth to it. I have a good heart. I'm a good person despite my whiteness. What can the good white people like myself, who are not prejudiced, or racist, what can we do to help the cause?
- Malcolm X: Nothing.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“He had this idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives.”

Will Smith - Neville

“Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn't own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn't. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands? You Jake, that's how. You are my secret weapon because you are one of the bad guys.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“Hey amigo, you think I care about the size, shape, color or political party of some sweet thing you're rolling around with?”
Kurt Russell - Eldon Perry

“What name were you given at birth, stupid white man?”
Gary Farmer - Nobody

“- Chef: Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
- Army General: I don't listen to hip-hop.”

Isaac Hayes - Chef
Trey Parker - Army General

“- Gabe: [referring to the Nazi paraphernalia that adorns Hando's room] Why do you have all this stuff?
- Hando: Because I don't want to be a white cooly in my own country. 'Cause it's not our country anymore.”
Jacqueline McKenzie - Gabe
Russell Crowe - Hando

“Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses perjure themselves. If a prosecutor enlists the perjurers. When a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cuts? Is that justice?”
Morgan Freeman - Judge Leonard White

“- Karen Smith: If you're from Africa, why are you white?
- Gretchen Wieners: Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white.”
Amanda Seyfried - Karen Smith
Lacey Chabert - Gretchen Wieners

“You want to know what my crime is? My crime was being born. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've been locked up twenty-six of those. I educated myself in here, and I've come to understand that this country was built on exploiting the black man.”

Brent Jennings - Abdul Elijah

“- Aidan McRory: Where did you learn your English?
- Naï-Rea: His Excellency asked the Australian priests to open a school here to teach us languages.
- Aidan McRory: Well, I'm very impressed. What else did they teach you?
- Naï-Rea: To beware of white men.”
Guy Pearce - Aidan McRory
Maï Anh Le - Naï-Rea

“Where would you have us go Charlie? Maybe you would prefer us to take a piece of Central Africa or Uruguay? Not Egypt, thank you, we tried that once and it was not a success. Or back to the ghettos?”
Diane Keaton - Martin Kurtz

“Have they? So you see, O'Neil. I know where you're coming from. To them you're just the new nigger on the block, that's all. Maybe you just moved in a little too early.”

Morris Chestnut - McCool

“Where does it come from? All this hatred?”

Gene Hackman - Anderson

“You're the smartest man here. You got them all eating out of your hands. You could own this frigging hotel, except for one thing. You're black.”

Nick Nolte - Colonel Oliver

“Your partner got killed. You lost your job. You went to jail. Your girlfriend walked. You got a job as a security guard at a hundred and eighty-two dollars a week. You know what you are, Hank? You're a black man.”
Martin Lawrence - Earl Montgomery