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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
Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.
— Rick Santorum
The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism.
— A.E. Samaan
You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps.
— Betty Medsger
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.
— Rod Blagojevich
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
— Tim Wise
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
— Harper Lee
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
— Barry O'Farrell
Racial profiling has to stop.
— Bobby Rush
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
— Napoleon Hill
All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
— Shirley Chisholm
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it ...
— Spencer W. Kimball
Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers
— Donald McGavran
Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses,
— Michelle Alexander
The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding ...
— Nicolas Sarkozy
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
— Raquel Cepeda
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
— Franz Boas
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
— Naomi Wolf
I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.
— St. Lucia
It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.
— Tim Wise
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
— Randall Kennedy
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
— Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
— Justin Simien
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
— Audre Lorde
We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
— Sherman Alexie
You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality.
— Kliph Nesteroff
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
— Tiger Woods
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
— Nina Jacobson
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
— Charles Kennedy
Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.
— Jennifer Granholm
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
— Adolf Hitler
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
— Heinrich Himmler
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
— Alice Walker
< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.
— David Brion Davis
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
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
— Jonathan Kozol
The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
— James A. Baldwin
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
— Marvin Ammori
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
— Paul Mooney
I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.
— Erik Larson
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
— John Oliver Killens
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
— George W. Bush
What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.
— Roxane Gay
Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.
— Jonathan Heatt
Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.
— Kara Walker
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
— F. LaGard Smith
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
— Sade Adu
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
— Harry S. Truman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language
— Clotye Murdock Larsson
If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
— Peggy McIntosh
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
— Jon Meacham
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
— Taylor Caldwell
I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.
— Robert Shapiro
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
— Robert Kennedy
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
— KRS-One
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
— Adrian Cronauer
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
— Thurgood Marshall
We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
— Lonnie Bunch
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.
— BeBe Winans
Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
— Raquel Cepeda
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
— James Fallows
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
— Wilfred Burchett
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
— Henry L. Stimson
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
— Robert Dallek
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
— Angela Davis
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
— Tim Wise
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
— Terrence Howard
Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.
— Barack Obama