Best Racial Proverbs
454 Racial quotes by 319 unique authors
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Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling…
— Denzel Washington
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The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we…
— Thomas Cole
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You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what…
— Nelson Mandela
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The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
— Carl Sagan
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Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial…
— Nelson Mandela
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At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.
— Billy Graham
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a…
— Angela Davis
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As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building…
— Thabo Mbeki
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have…
— A. Philip Randolph
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
— Rosa Parks
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Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.
— Michelle Alexander
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Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
— Nelson Mandela
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One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
— Audre Lorde
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Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
— Michael Jackson
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And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To…
— Bill Maher
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Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
— Janet Mock
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I believe inter -racial marriages show the world that the color of a person's skin is of no consequence. The more such marriages there are,…
— Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
— Earl Warren
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The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow,…
— Jim Keith
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The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding...
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage…
— Mark Pryor
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Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in…
— Albert Einstein
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I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis…
— Clarence Thomas
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