A Quote by Shirley Chisholm

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Shirley Chisholm

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All Americans Prejudice Prisoners Racial Prejudice

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Shirley Chisholm
American - Politician
November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005

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

John Oliver Killens

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

Jackie Robinson

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

Helen Hayes

Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind, it is easy to imagine that we are making far more racial progress than we actually are.

Michelle Alexander

Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.

Robin DiAngelo

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Randy Shilts

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Spencer W. Kimball

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

Clarence Thomas

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Moseley Braun

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

Shekhar Kapur

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Don King

People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway

Neal Boortz

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Michael Jackson

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Edward Brooke

While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.