Race And Color Quotes

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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  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.

  Dream, Kings, Children

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

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• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Color, Racism, Lines

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• [Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of colour. That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but that’s what I always respected about Malcolm. He was absolutely, totally impeccable on the question of race and colour.

  Bob Hawke

  Lonely, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• The irresponsible rhetoric of Barack Obama, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen.

  Donald Trump

  Race, Color, America

  Source: time.com

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• On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.

  Ostad Elahi

  Religious, Men, Differences

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• Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Leadership, Hurt, Mean

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

  Ameen Rihani

  Color, Class, Race

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• Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Race, Color

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

  Arlene Francis

  Differences, Race, Color

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Lying, Ignorance, Men

  Preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Thinking, Race, Color

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• We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

  John E. Lewis

  Gay, Race, Color

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful people of all faiths - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and many others. Every faith is practiced and protected here, because we are one country. Every immigrant can be fully and equally American because we're one country. Race and color should not divide us, because America is one country.

  George W. Bush

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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• The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

  Marmaduke Pickthall

  Wisdom, Islamic, Race

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• I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.

  John Lewis

  Sex, Couple, Cutting

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