Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. - Alex Haley Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me? - Jayz

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. - Mangosuthu Buthelezi I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. - Charles Rangel

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. - Rand Paul First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle. - Evan Sayet

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. - Robert Guillaume Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism. - Florynce R Kennedy The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss. - Wilbur A Smith

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. - Bell Hooks My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. - Patricia Ireland I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. - Patricia Ireland

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. - Margaret Atwood ..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation. - Michael Eric Dyson I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. - Billy Bragg One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. - Stokely Carmichael