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Racial Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
- I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the…
- Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
- There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves…
- 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…
- Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand…
- Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation…
- Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant…
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- Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to… — Jan Brewer
- Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying… — Jerry Brown
- Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. — Charlotte Bunch
- If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
- I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. — Jimmy Carter
- I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people… — Dave Chappelle
- ...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. — Dalai Lama
- Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for… — Adolf Hitler
- Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. — Barack Obama
- Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality — Barack Obama
- My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. — John Oliver Killens