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Racism Quotes
Welcome to my racism quotes. Racism still exists and that’s a shame that in this so called modern world people cannot see each other as human beings first and foremost. I am black and know racism on a personal level I know the pain and degradation it causes first hand. It’s something I loathe with a passion. I really hope one day people could just stop this hatred. The following quotes highlight this feeling.
- RACISM QUOTE OF THE PAGE
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Franklin Thomas
- The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
Harper Lee from To Kill a Mockingbird
- I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.
Nelson Mandela
- To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
- Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work
Angela Davis
- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
- I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me.
Langston Hughes
- Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Dennis Leary
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
Joseph Conrad
- Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.
Author Unknown
- If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
Bill Cosby
- I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.
Muhammad Ali, when he refused to fight in Vietnam
- Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.
Author Unknown
- I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba
- When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
- The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
African Proverb
- It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
James Arthur Baldwin
- That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.
Isaac Asimov
Thank you for passing though my racism quotes. I hope the world can get rid of this poison once and for all. I doubt I will see it in my lifetime but I hope some day in the future it will happen.
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