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Our goal
is to have a country that's not divided by race. -- Barack
Obama Our
goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I
travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people
want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions
or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious
or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think
there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time
to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character. --
Barack Obama |
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Is
it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and
placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice
of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man,
woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour"
-- Robert Owen
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whole system has not one redeeming quality; its very virtues, as they are termed,
are vices of great magnitude. Its charities, so called, are gross acts of injustice
and deception. Its instructions are to rivet ignorance in the mind and, if possible,
render it perpetual. It supports, in all manner of extravagance, idleness, presumption,
and uselessness; and oppresses, in almost every mode which ingenuity can devise,
industry, integrity and usefulness. It encourages superstition, bigotry and fanaticism;
and discourages truth, commonsense and rationality. It generates and cultivates
every inferior quality and base passion that human nature can be made to receive;
and has so disordered all the human intellects, that they have become universally
perplexed and confused, so that man has no just title to be called a reasonable
and rational being. It generates violence, robbery and murder, and extols and
rewards these vices as the highest of all virtues. Its laws are founded in gross
ignorance of individual man and of human society; they are cruel and unjust in
the extreme, and, united with all the superstitions in the world, are calculated
only to teach men to call that which is pre-eminently true and good, false and
bad; and that which is glaringly false and bad, true and good. In short, to cultivate
with great care all that leads to vice and misery in the mass, and to exclude
from them, with equal care, all that would direct them to true knowledge and real
happiness, which alone, combined, deserve the name of virtue. -- Robert
Owen
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"I do the very best
I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better
day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains
me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say
you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want,
and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. -- Rosa
Parks |
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Race is
the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear
their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow
and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters
drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars
into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move
forward together towards a bright and colorful future. -- Eva
Paterson | |
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Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. -- William
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Accomplishments
have no color. -- Leontyne Price
"I
feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome
isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered
me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not
maliciously" -- Paul
Robeson | |
"Every artist, every
scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no
standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers.
Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary
heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority,
the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the
formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The
battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear." And I saw, too, that the
struggle for Negro rights was an inseparable part of the anti-fascist struggle
and I said: "The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery. I have
made my choice. I had no alternative." -- Paul
Robeson
To divide along
the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. -- Theodore
Roosevelt | |
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...we
need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination
which is sometimes very subtly held... -- Bishop
Samuel Ruiz Garcia | Today
in America as in other parts of the world we see a model of a society in which
the powerful dominate. They marginalize and they go as far as to eliminate the
weakest before the homogenization caused by this system of globalization. Through
providence we have the taking of conscious cultural identity. As such the church
has a special mission to be the defender and promoter of a culture of life. This
culture of life assumes a preferential option for the poor, opposes or puts the
globalization of solidarity in opposition to the globalization of the markets.
It makes itself a voice for those who have no voice; denounces all violence, all
racial discrimination; walks beside those condemned to the land, those that are
displaced; is a promoter of integral development in the construction of peace
in the search for justice and liberation. This culture of life is what is expressed
as a service of hope. This urgency exists in this precise moment in which the
indigenous person, conscious of being a subject to their own history, will not
opt for a church that submerges them in a conflict where they have to live their
faith being aware of expressing it within a dominant culture. -- Bishop
Samuel Ruiz Garcia
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Collective
fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who
are not regarded as members of the herd. -- Bertrand
Russell | You
don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
-- Bobby Seale
Our
global community has come a long way in helping to eliminate
discrimination, but we still have far to go.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
End
Racism Day ... is a perfect opportunity to help our communities
celebrate human unity and the diversity of the human race
rather than allow our differences to become an excuse for
racial separation.
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Robert Alan Silverstein
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End Racism Day,
officially known as The International Day for the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination, is a perfect opportunity to help our communities
celebrate human unity and the diversity of the human race rather
than allow our differences to become an excuse for racial separation.
It's a chance to recognize prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination
in our society, and how each of us may have our own prejudices and
may be making people feel excluded without our even realizing it.
It's a chance to reaffirm our commitment to eliminate all forms
of discrimination and help create communities and societies where
all citizens can live in dignity, equality and peace.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
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Every
day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor
some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all
want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.
-- Russell Simmons
Antisemitism
is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians,
about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same. --
Russell Simmons
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All human
beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore,
no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender
or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection
or discrimination. -- Bishop
John Shelby Spong
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This is
no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy
and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings
into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system
still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles
other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
-- Gloria Steinem
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"How I
wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
-- Barbra Streisand
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