(226 quotes found)
“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.”
Pierre Berton
“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”
Abraham J. Heschel
“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism”
Elliott Larson
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.”
Huey Newton
“The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.”
“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”
Jesse Jackson
