Racial Quotes - page 2

By my monastic life and vows I am saying No to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socio-economic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace. (Thomas Merton)
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures. View quote
Eric A. Havelock
He had utter disdain for the Nazis and had no time for their racial purity agenda. View quote
Erich von Manstein
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world). View quote
Fritz Todt
Even though there's a massive amount of people of colour now living in Scotland...this country is 30 or 40 years behind any other English city in terms of racial attitudes and integration. There's no proper acknowledgement of the slave trade and how many Scottish cities were founded on money from that. Our children are just not taught that history. View quote
Jackie Kay
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? View quote
David Horowitz
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. View quote
Barack Obama
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. View quote
Barack Obama
A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish! View quote
Julius Streicher
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental. (C. L. R. James)
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves? View quote
Junot Diaz
Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn taken by the party of Abraham Lincoln toward racial prejudice, authoritarianism, and mercantilism. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. View quote
James Earl Jones
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise. View quote
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. View quote
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
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. View quote
Albert Maltz
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. (Anita Hill)
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. View quote
Bob Cousy
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments. View quote
Benjamin Jealous
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. View quote
Charlotte Bunch
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. View quote
Don King