Racism proverbs

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◆ I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

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

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

- Toni Morrison99

◆ Our true nationality is mankind.

- H.G. Wells99

◆ Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

- Chris Rock99

◆ Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.

- Junot Díaz99

◆ 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 Annan99

◆ Achievement has no color

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored

- Oglala Lakota99

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

- Chris Crutcher99

◆ We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

- Fred Hampton99

◆ Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

- Gary L. Francione99

◆ You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

- Malcolm X99