Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Paul Krassner

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Jane Elliott

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned