Racial Prejudice Quotes - Page 2

• I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

  Kevin michael

  School, Light, Years

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• The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Racism, People

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

  Hermann Weyl

  Spiritual, Our Generation, Forever

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  John Oliver Killens

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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