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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
Mark Twain1835–1910Concerning the Jews (Harper’s Magazine, Sept. 1899)
It’s impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can’t have capitalism without racism.
Malcolm X1925–1965May 29, 1964
- Economics
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Creators Syndicate November 28, 1998.
- Politics
Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens1913–1980About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211
- Presidency
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Warren G. Harding1865–1923Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, .
- Voting
The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 9
- Justice
Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
- Anger
The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Speech at the Emancipation League (12 February 1862), Boston
- America
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
Segregation is wrong because it is a system of adultery perpetuated by an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Cobo Center speech (1963)
- Justice
Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930“Out of Context”, Jewish World Review, 2 June 2009.
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren1891–1974Writing for the court, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
- Education
We must stand up and say, “I’m black and I’m beautiful,” and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
- Work
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Harlem Ghetto” originally in Commentary (February 1948)
- Youth