Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop's popularity equals racial unity.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given him, not the identity the world wanted to give him; he led an active, ongoing prayer life; he took time apart from the world to be with his Father; he made his Father's agenda his agenda; he made his Father's love for people evident in tangible ways; and so on. These are all characteristics that we should emulate in our lives.

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There's class and then there's the racial thing.

We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past much of that.

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

I suffered racial abuse in Lithuania, and in two games the fans were making monkey noises and throwing coins at me.

The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.