Racism is a sweeping stroke of the brush of arrogance to demean an entire race, merely to assert one’s own superiority.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of human history.

Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.

Racism is like blind men sitting in a dark room, convinced there’s nothing beyond its walls.

In this country, in this world, racism is used both to create false differences among us and to mask very significant ones—cultural, economic, political.

racism is arrogance at the highest level

What we did see — for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned — was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s “thing that should not be”;

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

Racism is a part of a problem, a world problem, which has to be overcome.

Racism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance.

The amount of racism, sexism, homophobia, and hatred in general that lies beneath the surface of the American dream is astounding and serious.