Racial Discrimination Quotes - Page 2

• People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that`s been in "The New York Times". Decades ago with "The New York Times".

  Chris Hayes

  New York, People, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

  Che Guevara

  Want, Discrimination, Kind

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I have clearly stated in prior interviews that I abhor racial discrimination and would have worked to end segregation. Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, Racism

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• Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

  Trent Lott

  Doe, Discrimination, Policy

  "Lott: Tripped up by history" by Dan Goodgame, Karen Tumulty, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2002.

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• Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, Law, People

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• When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

  John Lewis

  Growing Up, Men, White Man

  "Rep. John Lewis Looks Back On The Struggle For Voting Rights". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

  Duane Chapman

  People, Hatred, Black

  "Dog N-Bombs Himself into Hiatus" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. October 31, 2007.

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• Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Challenges, Black Racism, Discrimination

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• In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

  Martin Luther

  White, United States, Poverty

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• Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, People, Justice

  Source: time.com

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• A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Talking, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• That is what I want to make clear today. A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far, dark reaches of the Internet, should never run our government or command our military.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Military, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

  Shelby Steele

  New York, Criminals, Pieces

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, People, Democracy

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

  William O. Douglas

  Race, White, Black

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• The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

  Dean Baker

  Hate, War, People

  "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My friends were more preoccupied with social issues - issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, and Communism - and those issues just never caught my interest. Of course they mattered to me as a citizen to some degree...but they never really caught my attention artistically.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Abortion, Attention

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  Oliver Tambo

  Black, Discrimination, Oppression

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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

  Yield, Law, Principles

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• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

  Albert Maltz

  Writing, College, Lynching

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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 discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, War, Israel

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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 of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Equality, Race

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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