Racism And Prejudice Quotes:

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality, Celebrate Life, Dividing

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

- Thurgood Marshall

source: Thurgood Marshall's acceptance speech for the Liberty Medal at the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, genius.com. July 4, 1992.

topic: Memories, Powerful, America, Racism And Prejudice

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Joyful Heart, Judging You

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

- Chris Crutcher

topic: Racism, Racist, Action, Racism And Prejudice

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

topic: Racism, People, Want, Racism And Prejudice

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

- E. B. White

topic: Time, Prejudice, Facts, Racism And Prejudice, Forming Opinions

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Lying, Judging, Racism, Good Judgment, Discrimination And Racism

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Faith, Peace, Belive, Peace Love

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

- Dorothy Allison

source: Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

topic: Good Life, Believe, Class, Racism And Prejudice

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

- Mary Browne

topic: Wisdom, Optimistic, Doors, Discrimination And Racism, Perception Of The World

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Hate, Inspiration, Greatness, Cassius Clay, Famous Boxer

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

- Alex Haley

topic: Racism, Racist, Our Society, Learned Behavior, Racism And Prejudice

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

topic: Dream, Children, Integrity, Good Character, Social Equality

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Giving Up, Learning, Importunate, Walden Pond

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

source: Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52

topic: Ignorance, Men, Racism, Forged, Discrimination And Racism

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

- Tim Holden

topic: Powerful, Responsibility, Racism, Racism And Prejudice, Ramifications

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Color, Judging, People, Good Character, Social Equality

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Ignorance, Hands, Racism, Racism And Prejudice, Ignorance And Prejudice

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Powerful, Past, Inaccessible, Racial Prejudice

We must dissent from the fear.

- Thurgood Marshall

topic: Dissent, Racism And Prejudice

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

topic: Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love, Kings Speech, Daybreak

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

- Franklin A. Thomas

topic: Freedom, Eye, Unique, Melanin, Discrimination And Racism

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

- Francis James Grimke

source: Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

topic: Race, Prejudice, Racism And Prejudice

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

topic: Sad, History, Historical, Racial Prejudice, Writing History

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

- William Penn

topic: Tolerance, Understanding, Helping, Lord Help Me, Racism And Prejudice

Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

- Hal Crowther

topic: Art, Successful, Play, Belligerence, Racism And Prejudice

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

- John Wesley

source: John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: Tracts and letters on various subjects”, p.400

topic: Passion, Names, Prejudice, Racism And Prejudice

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

- Alanis Obomsawin

topic: Long Walks, Racism, Prejudice, Racism And Prejudice