Race

We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of and made of shit)…
Imamu Amiri Baraka, Black Magic, ‘A school of prayer’

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folks is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
H.L. Mencken

I wouldn’t know, I’m from Alabama.
An African-American responds to President Nixon, having been asked, at a celebration of Ghana’s independence, what it felt like to be free.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice.
Martin Luther King

I fucking hate niggers, I wish we could put them all in a concentration camp with the kikes and be done with the lot.
‘Tay’, a Microsoft bot designed to learn how to communicate authentically on Twitter. It took just fifteen hours for the bot to become racist.

[A person is] a male Person, including an Indian and excluding a person of Mongolian or Chinese race.
Canada Franchise Act 1885

We have every kind of mixture you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.
James Watt, US Interior Secretary on the balanced composition of an advisory board

Porkie.
Jamaican term of abuse for white people

What negroes want is tight pussy, loose shoes and a warm place to shit.
Earl Butz, US Secretary for Agriculture in the Nixon administration

When black man thief, him steal half a bit; but when white man thief, him steal a whole sugar plantation.
Black American slave. Attrib.

When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.
Yoruba proverb

Making love to a white man is like making love to a skinned animal.
Anonymous Nigerian woman

The white race is the cancer of all human history. It is the white race and it alone, its ideologies and inventions, which eradicate autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads.
Susan Sontag, Partisan Review

You gotta say this for the white race – its self-confidence knows no bounds. Who else could go to a small island in the South Pacific where there’s no poverty, no crime, no unemployment, no war and no worry – and call it a ‘primitive society’?
Dick Gregory

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I … am in favour of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
Abraham Lincoln

White people say to me ‘Isn’t there anything good about us?’ and I reply ‘Yes. You sure can ski. You’re beautiful skiers.’
Paul Mooney

The Sioux Indians are a set of miserable, dirty, lousy, blanketed, seething, lying, sneaking, murdering, graceless, faceless, dog-eating SKUNKS as the Lord ever permitted to infect the earth, and whose immediate and final extermination all MEN, excepting Indian agents and traders, should pray for.
Topeka Weekly Daily, 1869

I’m a coloured, one-eyed Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr., when asked what his handicap was during a game of golf

There is only one race greater than the Jews – and that is the Derby.
Victor Sassoon

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

His 140,000 words were 140,000 offences against the spirit of the German language.
Leon Feuchtwanger on Hitler’s Mein Kampf

They are more like animals than human beings. Those of them who live deep in the north – between the end of the even climates and the end of the habitable world – have been so affected by the extreme distance of the sun from the Zenith above their heads, resulting in cold climate and thick atmosphere, that their temperatures have become chilly and their humours rude. Consequently their bodies are huge, their colour pale and their hair long. For the same reason they lack keenness in intelligence and perspicacity and are characterized by ignorance and stupidity. Folly and mental blindness prevail among them.
Sai’d, eleventh-century Muslim scientist, on Northern Europeans

If a Jew can have the rope free of charge he will let himself be hanged.
Russian insult

If the Jew is of gold, his testicles are of copper.
Moorish insult

The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting the wild boar in Silesia, mine were princes of the earth.
Judah Benjamin, replying to an anti-Semitic remark by a senator of German origin. Attrib.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
David Lloyd George

… a tendency – from which I suffer myself – to presume that anyone of any eminence at all is Jewish, unless he or she can show definitive proof to the contrary.
Chaim Bermant

No, not really. Except this: We think they’re stupid.
Dominic Lawson, when asked at a Spectator lunch whether Jews held any prejudice against Gentiles comparable to anti-Semitism