Race And Religion Quotes:

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Source: newrepublic.com

topic: Race, Important, Race And Religion

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Christian, War, Law, Anti Religious, Race And Religion

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

topic: Kings, Race, Faith Religion, Deism, Our Founding Fathers

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

- Dalai Lama

topic: Race, Different, May, Different Races, Race And Religion

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

- Pablo Picasso

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Race, Goes On, May, Pilgrimage, Places Of Worship

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Race, Presidential, Prejudice, Race And Religion

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

- Ravi Zacharias

source: Source: verticallivingministries.com

topic: Race, Years, Tolerance, Pluralism, Different Races

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

- Martin Gardner

source: "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

topic: Believe, Ignorance, Men, Race And Religion, Shedding Light

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

- Steve Kerr

topic: Basketball, Sports, Country, Different Races, Race And Religion

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.

- Herbert Otto Gille

topic: Race, Erotic, Today, Liaison, Race And Religion

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

topic: Thinking, Race, Important, Race And Religion, Gender And Sexuality

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

- Barack Obama

source: "NPR Skips Over Conservative/GOP Critique of Obama Olympics Bid". www.newsbusters.org. October 3, 2009.

topic: Sports, Dream, Heart, Sports Fan, Race And Religion

Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes after race and religion, ... Our laws should not ignore that reality.

- Janet Reno

topic: Hate, Reality, Race, Race And Religion, Hate Crime

This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

- Kevyn Aucoin

topic: Beautiful, Philosophy, Past, Mighty Oaks, Weathered

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: New York, Race, Tuesday, Race And Religion, Public Officials

We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.

- Mike Gravel

source: Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press

topic: War, Gay, Race, Political Leaders, Race And Religion

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

- Jules Michelet

topic: Race, India, World, Starting Point, Race And Religion