Racial Quotes - page 3

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam. (Geraldo Rivera)
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. View quote
Herschel Walker
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. View quote
James Meredith
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots. View quote
Jessica Savitch
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. View quote
Jose Serrano
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. View quote
James A. Forbes
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. View quote
Manning Marable
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review. View quote
Mara Liasson
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone. View quote
Judge Mills Lane
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem. (Marya Hornbacher)
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. View quote
Pete Rozelle
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. View quote
Roy Ayers
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. View quote
Roy Ayers
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there. View quote
Randall Kennedy
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations. View quote
Stephen Lang
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. View quote
Tom Allen
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston. View quote
Thomas Menino
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. View quote
Yvette Clarke
In Cuba, there is no fear of a racial war. Men are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. Cubans are more than whites, mulattos or Negroes. On the field of battle, dying for Cuba, the souls of whites and Negroes have risen together into the air. (José Martí)
To insist on racial divisions, on racial differences, in an already divided people, is to place obstacles in the way of public and individual happiness, which can only be obtained by bringing people together as a nation. View quote
José Martí
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. View quote
Sidney Poitier
The "human rights" advertised by the imperialists are privileges of the rich, privileges to do anything on the strength of money. The imperialists do not recognize the right of unemployed people to work, or the right of orphans or people without support to eat and survive, for instance, as human rights. As they do not grant working people elementary rights to existence and as they pursue anti-popular policies and policies of racial and national discrimination and colonialism, the imperialists have no right to speak about human rights. The imperialists are the most heinous enemy of human rights. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past. View quote
George Takei