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If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Love
I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X1925–1965By Any Means Necessary (1970)
The Church in the colonies is a white man’s Church, a foreigners’ Church. It does not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 7
- Anti-Religion
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurring in part and dissenting in part, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (1865)
- Voting
Treat the negro as a citizen and a voter, as he is and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the color line, but on principle.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Sixth State of the Union Address (1874)
- Voting
Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism.
Bell hooks1952–2021Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory, p. 3.
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Freedom
I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885To Isaac N. Morris (1868), as quoted in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: July 1, 1868–October 31, 1869, by Ulysses S. Grant, p. 37
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
George W. Bushborn 1946Freedom at War With Fear (2001)
- Religion
We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“The Destiny of Colored Americans”, The North Star (16 November 1849)
- America
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968)
- Change
- Hope
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
Ron Paulborn 1935Government and Racism (16 April 2007).
We have seen the white men betray the flag and fight to kill the Union; but in all that long, dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Speech to the ‘Boys in Blue’ (1880)
- War & Peace