110 Movie Quotes about Racism (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

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.

81 Baseball's done all right for years without colored in it. I say let's keep it that way.

Quote from Destination Freedom

82 I hear on Market Street they're driving out the Negro merchants.

Quote from Destination Freedom

83 We don't want no equality with Negroes. That's all there is to it.

Quote from Destination Freedom

84 My man says the Klan's the only thing's that's protectin' us white women from Negro men. He says that!

Quote from Destination Freedom

85 What is it? -You're sitting in the wrong seats. White folks in the front, colored in the rear.

Quote from Destination Freedom

86 Stripes on a nigger. That's like _ on a bull.

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

87 They've been throwing at my head for a long time, Mr. Rickey.

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

88 Tell me, Jackie... What do you think would actually happen if you were to get out on a white baseball field? -I don't know. They might call me names. They might even beat me up.

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

89 Virgil, that's a funny name for a nigger boy that comes from Philadelphia. What do they call you up there?

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

90 All right, what'll you have, Virgil? -I ain't servin' him!

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