Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

I don't think it's up to black athletes to get involved in political or racial issues.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.

This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

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

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.

A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

Ever since I was a child, I always had insecurity or suspicions about my own personal identity. That's why I started going to a lot of movie theaters, because I felt more comfortable there than at school. Now, the search for a personal identity is becoming a common topic for young Japanese people, and it's a big theme in their own lives. But it's been a theme in my life, as well, ever since I was young.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.

It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

If we truly want to make America great, we need to fix this racial inequality.

I think it's important to condemn that. There's a line, and if you have a racial - racist comment, no, somebody has to act upon it.

The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

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

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.