QUOTES
End
Racism Quotes Page
1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page
4 | Page 5
| *
"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. If
you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too.
If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities,
colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either.
And 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 |  |
We learn to be racist,
therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything
to do with power.
-- Jane Elliot We
are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe
to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have
racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are
white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.
-- Jane Elliot
| |
The fight for freedom is
combined with the fight for equality, and we must realize that this is the fight
for America - not just black America but all America.
-- James
Farmer |
To live anywhere
in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living
in Alaska and being against snow.
--William Faulkner
| *
“I am
going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling
me a black man.”
-- Morgan
Freeman |
|
| *
...violence
is destroying us. You know, we’re seeing violence growing every day in our streets,
in our homes, in our towns, in our cities, in the world itself. Everywhere we
turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative
emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of
this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and
harmony where future generations can live happily together.
-- Arun
Gandhi |  |
*
“Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting
for racial justice … you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give
back to the community that you never get in any other way.”
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg |  |
| 
|
*
If we
talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism
- about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung
capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
-- Danny
Glover |
*
"We
often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would
reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons,
we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported
all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still
be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs.
Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes
them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and
mindfully."
--
Thich Nhat Hanh |
|
"While the legal,
material, and even superficial requirements to eradicate racism are well known,
its psychological and more deeply spiritual requirements have been persistently
neglected-namely, the oneness of the human family. It is this principle of oneness
that needs to be the driving force behind the struggle of uniting the races."
--Sara Harrington
We talk of regional
conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses
of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and
poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each
and every one of these impediments to humanity’s pursuit of well-being are also
among the root causes of refugee problems.
-- Poul
Hartling | 
|
Prejudice is the
child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Racism
is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
| I
swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody
but me.
-- Langston
Hughes *
Let America
be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
-- Langston
Hughes |
|
| |
*
The
ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
-- Hubert Humphrey |
When we're unemployed,
we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
-- Jesse Jackson if
whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people
who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
--
Jesse Jackson |  |
| |
*
Bigotry
is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant.
Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
-- Thomas
Jefferson | "A
rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly
what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself.
We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper
harm is to ourselves."
-- E. Stanley Jones
Portraits
for illustration purposes - no endorsement implied.
Thanks
to Anukul Gurung for the fairy image of Emily
Thanks to Fletcher Grayson/Gray
Media for creating The Emily Fund logo |
