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"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
Baldwin
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"I
imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates
so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is
gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
-- James
Baldwin
Everything
now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right
to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty
now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the
racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change
the history of the world.
-- James Baldwin
Prejudices
are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
--Countess of Blessington
"Preconceived
notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
-- Merry Browne
There
can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right”
and the Amish or others like them are “wrong.” A way
of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes
with no right or interests of others is not to be
condemned because it is different.
-- Justice Warren Burger
"We
hate some persons because we do not know them; and
will not know them because we hate them."
-- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Judgements
prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
If
you as parents cut corners, your children will
too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend
all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion
of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,
and civic causes, your children won't either.
And if parents snicker at racial and gender
jokes, another generation will pass on the poison
adults still have not had the courage to snuff
out.
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We
learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to
be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything
to do with power.
-- Jane Elliot
We
are still conditioning people in this country and,
indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority.
We are constantly being told that we don't have racism
in this country anymore, but most of the people who
are saying that are white. White people think it isn't
happening because it isn't happening to them.
-- Jane Elliot
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
"While
the legal, material, and even superficial requirements
to eradicate racism are well known, its psychological
and more deeply spiritual requirements have been persistently
neglected-namely, the oneness of the human family.
It is this principle of oneness that needs to be the
driving force behind the struggle of uniting the races."
--Sara Harrington
Prejudice
is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt
"Racism
is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred
for a minimum of reason."
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I
swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
-- Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks
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The
ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction
to the very meaning of America.
-- Hubert
Humphrey
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When
we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites
are unemployed it's called a depression.
-- Jesse Jackson
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Bigotry
is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds;
enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education
and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
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"A
rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will
bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of
hate and resentment against others is - a biting of
oneself. We think we are harming others in holding
these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to
ourselves."
-- E. Stanley Jones
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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
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I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work
for a living will be one with no thought to their
separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other
distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into
full realization the American dream -- a dream yet
unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of
privilege and property widely distributed; a dream
of a land where men will not take necessities from
the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a
land where men will not argue that the color of a
man's skin determines the content of his character;
a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources
are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments
of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of
a country where every man will respect the dignity
and worth of the human personality.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"If
the moderates of the white South fail to act now,
history will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition was not the strident
clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence
of the good people."
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr ,
1958
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 nonviolence and
the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available
to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human
dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach
will bring about a solution to the race problem in
America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed
people that it is possible to resist evil and yet
not resort to violence.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
We
will have to repent in this generation not merely
for the hateful words and actions of the bad people
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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
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"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
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Let
us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred,
Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry.
Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right
to be Himself, and free.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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O
Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what
I do not understand.
-- William
Penn
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Accomplishments
have no color.
-- Leontyne Price
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To
divide along the lines of section or caste
or creed is un-American.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
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Collective
fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to
produce ferocity toward those who are not
regarded as members of the herd.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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You
don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight
racism is with solidarity.
-- Bobby Seale
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This
is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.
Sex and race because they are easy and visible
differences have been the primary ways of
organizing human beings into superior and
inferior groups and into the cheap labour
in which this system still depends. We are
talking about a society in which there will
be no roles other than those chosen or those
earned. We are really talking about humanism.
-- Gloria
Steinem
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"If
you judge people you have no time to love them."
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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
"I
have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices
nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is
that a man is a human being, and that is enough
for me; he can't be any worse."
-- Mark
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Freedom
is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and
fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to
everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they
agree with us or not, no matter what their race or
the color of their skin.
-- Wendell L. Wilkie
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Excellence
is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-- Oprah
Winfrey
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