Skin Color Quotes

• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Race, Diversity

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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• We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Skins, World

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• 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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• I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skins, Care, Lines

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• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Gay, Rights

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• You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skins, World, Where You Come

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• Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Soul, Mind

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• Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Skins, Doe

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

  Claudia Black

  Mother, Race, Skins

  "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Color, Hair, Sight

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• One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Skins

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• I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, People, Just Friends

  "INTERVIEW: Khloe Kardashian Ain’t Trying to Be Black". Interview With Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

  James Lankford

  Race, Two, Skins

  "GOP Rep. Lankford Explains Why It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay: ‘It’s A Choice Issue’". thinkprogress.org. May 14, 2012.

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• I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

  Annie Ilonzeh

  Mother, Father, White

  "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" By Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, Judging, Skins

  "A Letter for McCain Supporters’ Eyes Only" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money.

  Anodea Judith

  Sex, Love Is, Age

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• There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.

  Malala Yousafzai

  People, Skins, Language

  "It’s Time for Pakistan to Face Its Terrorism Menace — And Stop Blaming the Usual Easy Targets" by Farheen Rizvi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2015.

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• It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

  Dennis Miller

  Color, Skins, Reason

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• The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Yankees, Differences

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• It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Race, Skins, Shade

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  J. C. Watts

  Reality, America, Skins

  "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Greatness, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Color, Skins, And Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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