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.
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most viol...
Nelson Mandela
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor leg...
Nelson Mandela
[in New York Magazine, commenting about his recurring role as a terrorist on TV`s "24" (2001)] I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it`s repulsive. But it was the first time I had ...
Kal Penn
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle
On his fling with Communism: "What did I care for labor? For racial discrimination? For civil liberties and the war between the classes? Oh, I cared in my own fashion. I cared just enough to embrace these things as props, flailing away night after night a...
Sterling Hayden
[On his 1962 Oscar-winning role in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)] "I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I`d learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequ...
Gregory Peck
[on racial stereotyping] My father is Mexican and very dark; my mother is very fair. I used to always get [script] breakdowns for things like Maria, the janitor`s daughter who hangs around with white kids. I was born in the United States. I never thought ...
Jessica Alba
On his 1962 Oscar-winning role in To Kill A Mockingbird (1955)_: "I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I`d learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequ...
Gregory Peck
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
Wentworth Miller
[commenting in 2004 on Britain`s proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill] To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, ...
Rowan Atkinson
I don`t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn`t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we`re not living up to it.
Jayne Mansfield
You don`t want to be red-flagged for racial profiling. So you back away. The result of this is less effective policing. And this is what we see resulting from this.
Heather MacDonald
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples` democra...
Paul Robeson
When race is featured on shows like this, one of the agendas is to create racial tension. If the world moves too easily, it`s not good TV. What this show seems to be doing is taking an important subject and trivializing it.
Nelson George
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.
Mort Walker
We`ve had several issues over the years of what appeared to be racial discrimination against black voters and the Justice Department has yet to come in and do a thorough investigation. And for them to take on this case is highly unusual and very suspect.
Andy Ford
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Anita Hill
Today we have to fight the political walls and divisions that separate us. We must communicate across all political, religious and racial barriers.
Thor Heyerdahl
This is a tremendous opportunity for the Church to bridge the racial divide in the wake of Katrina; black leaders must aid these local churches that are providing shelter and relief to the poorest of the poor.
Arturo Chavez
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
John Clayton
There is a real perception that there are two sets of rules in this country when it comes to police action. One for African Americans, Latinos and other minorities and another for whites and the rest of society. If there is to be one America, then this ra...
Danny Davis
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
Alice Paul
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Alvin Franco