49 Blacklist Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous blacklist quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational blacklist quotes. Hopefully, these blacklist quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your blacklist knowledge!
Famous Blacklist Quotes
In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. — Annie Jacobsen
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race. — Margaret Sanger
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena. — Robert Byrd
There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. — Ted Danson
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy
Don't join the book burners! — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. — John Lee Hooker
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to. — Richard M. Nixon
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. — Shirley Chisholm
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. — Richard M. Nixon
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. — George Jackson
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended. — Harry Belafonte
Short Blacklist Quotes
- Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever. — Richard Widmark
- I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. — Karen Morley
- If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it. — Billy Bragg
- Im so happy with The Blacklist. Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. — Diego Klattenhoff
- The music industry had virtually blacklisted me. — Irene Cara
People Writing About Blacklist
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Richard M. Nixon |
374 | 4061 |
 Annie Jacobsen |
73 | 1 |
 Margaret Sanger |
101 | 923 |
 Sonia Sanchez |
25 | 1556 |
 Robert Byrd |
35 | 577 |
 Ted Danson |
41 | 279 |
More Blacklist Quotes
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. — Maajid Nawaz
I am surprised that the blacklist did not include the Pope, Henry Kissinger, Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Sachs, Stephen Walt, Barry Posen, and other prominent figures who have made arguments similar to mine and others already on the list. —
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far. — Studs Terkel
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. — Kirk Douglas
If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram. — Madonna Ciccone
I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting. — Kevin Spacey
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. — Edward Dmytryk
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist. — Jimmy Fallon
I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows. — Joseph Gurney Cannon
Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women. — Anne M. Mulcahy
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. — Rip Torn
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything. — Lee Grant
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. — Kirk Douglas
The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties. — Rush Limbaugh
The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting. — Karina Longworth
You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person. — Meryl Streep
Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects. — Michelle Malkin
People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always wondered whether you weren't being hired because you weren't any good. — Kim Hunter
There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging. — Janeane Garofalo
This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do — Dalton Trumbo
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. — Dalton Trumbo
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.' — Ed Asner
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