Jesse Jackson Quotes

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

I doubted that the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored, typical coon who blacks my shoes every morning was fit for citizenship.

The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience

So far as this particular negro is personally concerned, he may be dismissed as beneath contempt. There is a far graver side to the matter. This negro is regarded as a leader; he both reflects the sentiments of his race, and his utterance react upon his followers with an effect that was made sufficiently plain by the "vigorous applause" with which his slander was greeted by the negroes in the gallery. As the blatant mouthing of a mere negro, White's utterances are not worth notice; as a fresh manifestation of negroism, of what the negro's attitude is toward the white man, now and always, its significance should not be allowed to escape us.

… defiling the race line

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

We can sugar-coat this any way we want to, but the reality is that there are some people who just don’t want a Black President.

There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.

Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their eyes. At one time, it was a sharp comic barb that got levelled at some people.

I think Donald Trump might be racist.

I had this one teacher, and as I got older and translated things he used to say, it was racist and hatred stuff he was saying toward me and my brother.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.