105 Movie Quotes about Racism (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about racism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 I am surprised at how well you handle them. See, I am from Kentucky originally and we owned a few ourselves, so it comes naturally to me.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

52 All I can see is your black face, that black face right over me. So I haul off and punch you right in the cheek. What do you do? -Mr. Rickey, I've got two cheeks.

Minor Watson as Branch Rickey in The Jackie Robinson Story

53 Colored can't earn that kinda money, boy. Hell, that's more than I make in a month. Now, where did you earn it? -Philadelphia. -Mississippi? -Pennsylvania.

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

54 Isn't that remarkable that of all the orchids in this place, you should prefer the epiphytics. I wonder if you know why. -Maybe it would be helpful if you'd tell me. -Because, like the Negro, they need care, feedin', cultivatin'. And that takes time.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

55 There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

56 Is it possible? Yes, it is possible in this fine world we live in. Not only possible, but done. Done, see? Under that sky there, every day. It'll continue being done until the last of that accursed race has perished in the face of the earth.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

57 I'm so sorry. I had no idea we had a racist working here. I apologize most sincerely. I mean... Where are you going? No, I can explain...

John Cleese in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

58 The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit and hope and faith, only because they're of another race, another creed.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

59 We'll keep the eggplants out. -Ah, good. We don't want any vegetables. -No, no. The jungle bunnies. -Of course. They'll eat the vegetables.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

60 You goddamn ape! You made a monkey out of us!

Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones in Black Belt Jones (1974)

105 Movie Quotes about Racism (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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