Racial Prejudice Quotes

• Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

  Don King

  Mother, Children, Evil

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• Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Black, Prejudice

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang

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• Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

  James Fallows

  People, Prejudice, Messages

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• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

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• In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Light, Risk, Prejudice

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cancer, Lakes, Community

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others.

  Rosa Parks

  Believe, Race, People

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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 the color's of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Fighting, Men

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

  Kenneth Clark

  Prejudice, Civil Rights, Unstable

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press

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• Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Country, Heart, Ignorance

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• My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, Parent, Mind

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• I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, White, Feelings

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

  Ron Fournier

  Prejudice, Presidency

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

  Hermann Weyl

  Spiritual, Our Generation, Forever

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Racism, People

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

  Kevin michael

  School, Light, Years

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• My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  John Oliver Killens

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Racism, Prejudice, Prisoner

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.151, Take Root Media

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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• if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Hate, Racism, Pet

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Curves, Long, Racism

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Heart Mountain: A Novel”, p.38, Open Road Media

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