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RACISM
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.
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
positive value of anger is not limited to peace activists,
but is relevant to all who work for social change.
It may be argued that anger is the personal fuel in
the social motor that resolves the institutional contradictions
that arise in the course of history. As such. it applies
to the activists who rid the world of slavery, and
who moved the political economic systems from feudalism
to capitalism and from capitalism to socialism, and
who are fighting today to rid the world of racism
and sexism.
-- David
Adams
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
"Perhaps
travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating
that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die,
it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand
each other, we may even become friends.
-- Maya
Angelou
*Prejudice
is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the
future and renders the present inaccessible.
-- Maya
Angelou
*...Several
million Sarvodaya adherents in Sri Lanka have proved
that they can transcend racial, religious, linguistic
and ethnic barriers to accept a common state of ideals,
principles, and constructive programs to build a new
society as collectively envisioned by them.
--
Dr.
Ari Ariyaratne
*
"It
demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the
hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater
miracle of perception and charity not to teach your
child to hate."
-- James
Baldwin
"I imagine
one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly
is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced
to deal with pain."
-- James
Baldwin
Everything
now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to
assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we
may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare,
and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.
-- James
Baldwin
*Anti-Semitism
has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical
origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
-- Daniel
Barenboim
I
hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian
co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the
Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably
linked.
-- Daniel
Barenboim
*If
you want to address racial disparity in the juvenile
justice system, everybody has to have a role in it.
Everybody has some responsibility.
-- James
Bell
*“Despite
the threat of global terror hanging over all of us,
there is only one path: to pursue the Millennium Development
Goals with fresh resolve –confronting violence, bigotry
and hatred with the same determination that we attack
the causes from which they spring – conflict, ignorance,
poverty and disease. The world we seek, where every
child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity
– in short, a world fit for children – has remained
a dream for more years than we can count. But we at
UNICEF are convinced that working together with committed
partners, and with an appropriate plan of action and
a commitment to resources, we can make that dream
a reality for each and every child on earth.”
-- Carol
Bellamy
*“Racism
is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed;
for or against, we must take sides. And the history
of the future will differ according to the decision
which we make.”
-- Ruth
Fulton Benedict
*If
we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination,
we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should,
therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks
of discrimination or slander.
-- Mary
McLeod Bethune
Race
prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it
is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest
over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects
to go on.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
*At
the heart of the problem is the fact that the United
States is a racially divided nation where extreme
racial inequalities continue to persist.
-- Robert
Bullard
*
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual"
environmentalism that is generally practiced by the
more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented
groups. The focus of activists of color and their
constituents reflects their life experiences of social,
economic, and political disenfranchisement.
-- Robert
Bullard
Prejudices
are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
--Countess of Blessington
"Preconceived
notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
-- Merry Browne
*
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of
discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be
eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte
Bunch
*Man
has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He
has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,
less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he
knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being.
He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood
by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow
nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and
lust for power.
-- Ralph
J. Bunche
There
can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and
the Amish or others like them are “wrong.” A way of life
that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right
or interests of others is not to be condemned because it
is different.
-- Justice Warren Burger
*The
exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for
freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread
and racial discrimination -- all these evils are far
too prevalent to be overlooked.
-- René
Samuel Cassin
"…jingoism,
racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are
the ways of appealing to people if you're trying
to organize a mass base of support for policies
that are really intended to crush them."
-- Noam
Chomsky
*Non-violence
can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty,
hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and
hatred - when women and men can realize their highest
potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until
then, each and every one of us would have to contribute
- collectively and individually - to build peace through
non-violence.
-- Anwarul
Chowdhury
"We
hate some persons because we do not know them; and will
not know them because we hate them."
-- Charles Caleb Colton
The
conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it
away from those who have a different complexion or slightly
flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when
you look into it.
~ Joseph Conrad
*"A
white person listens to my act and he laughs and he
thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay.
He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the
same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So
I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations
as the next guy."
-- Bill
Cosby
"Right-wing
propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially
entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice,
selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works
for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs
is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly
successful. In place of traditional conservative
ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence
and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed
for the conceptually and ethically impaired."
-- Hal
Crowther
“We
have been basically persuaded that we should not talk
about racism.”
-- Angela
Davis
*Racism
is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind
of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far
more terrible than it's ever been.
-- Angela
Davis
*Racism
is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long
in individual and community memories. And it is
not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to
do what we can to turn this around.
-- William
Deane
*"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign.
It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a
lack of education and information. Repression, injustice
and exploitation are inimical with peace. Peace is gravely
threatened by inter-group fear and envy and by the unleashing
of unrealistic expectations. Racial, class and religious
intolerance and prejudice are its mortal enemies."
-- Frederik
W. de Klerk
Judgements
prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
-- Dr. Wanye W. Dyer
*
"If
parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another
generation will pass on the poison adults still have
not had the courage to snuff out.
If
you as parents cut corners, your children will too.
If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money
on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities,
colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes,
your children won't either. And if parents snicker
at racial and gender jokes, another generation will
pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage
to snuff out.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
We learn
to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism
is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
-- Jane Elliot
We are
still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all
over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are
constantly being told that we don't have racism in this
country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that
are white. White people think it isn't happening because
it isn't happening to them.
-- Jane Elliot
The
fight for freedom is combined with the fight for equality,
and we must realize that this is the fight for America
- not just black America but all America.
-- James
Farmer
To live
anywhere in the world today and be against equality because
of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against
snow.
--William Faulkner
*“I
am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going
to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”
-- Morgan
Freeman
*...violence
is destroying us. You know, we’re seeing violence
growing every day in our streets, in our homes, in
our towns, in our cities, in the world itself. Everywhere
we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and
anger and all of these negative emotions that are
destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take
note of this and try to change our course, so that
we can create a world of peace and harmony where future
generations can live happily together.
-- Arun
Gandhi
*
“Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's
organization, or fighting for racial justice … you will
get satisfaction out of doing something to give back
to the community that you never get in any other way.”
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
*If
we talk about the environment, for example, we have
to talk about environmental racism - about the fact
that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third
of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
-- Danny
Glover
*"We
often think of peace as the absence of war; that if
the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals,
we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the
weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears,
and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs
to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for
bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds,
and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek
to become more aware of what causes anger and separation,
and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in
your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
"While
the legal, material, and even superficial requirements to
eradicate racism are well known, its psychological and more
deeply spiritual requirements have been persistently neglected-namely,
the oneness of the human family. It is this principle of
oneness that needs to be the driving force behind the struggle
of uniting the races."
--Sara Harrington
*
“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
-- George
Harrison
“As
long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
--
George Harrison
We
talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises,
of political instability, of abuses of human rights,
of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between
rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development
and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these
impediments to humanity’s pursuit of well-being are
also among the root causes of refugee problems.
-- Poul
Hartling
Prejudice
is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt
"Racism
is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for
a minimum of reason."
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I
swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
-- Langston
Hughes
*Let
America be America, where equality is in the air we
breathe.
-- Langston
Hughes
*
The
ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction
to the very meaning of America.
-- Hubert
Humphrey
When
we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites
are unemployed it's called a depression.
-- Jesse
Jackson
if
whites would vote their economic interests, not their
racial fears, we the people who have the most need
for change have the power to bring about that change
nonviolently.
-- Jesse
Jackson
*
Bigotry
is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm
of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion
are the antidotes of both.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"A rattlesnake,
if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That
is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against
others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming
others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper
harm is to ourselves."
-- E. Stanley Jones
*Where
are the unusual individuals, the daring pioneers,
who will devote their lives to making a better history
for humanity? In order to create a new history for
mankind, human beings will first have to create a
new history within themselves. They will have to liberate
themselves from national, religious, racial, and class
prejudices and from enslavement to honor, fame, and
pleasure...
-- Frederick
Kettner
*
"I
believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance
and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry
and prejudice...
--
Coretta Scott King
*
I
refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that
the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never
become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love will have the final word.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power,
indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless
we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear
and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves
created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to
war and violence between nations as it is to put an end
to poverty and racial injustice." -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work for
a living will be one with no thought to their separateness
as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This
will be the day when we bring into full realization the
American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality
of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed;
a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from
the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land
where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin
determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation
where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves
alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity;
the dream of a country where every man will respect the
dignity and worth of the human personality. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"If
the moderates of the white South fail to act now, history
will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period
of social transition was not the strident clamor of the
bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr ,
1958
In our
struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama,
I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of
Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of
love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle
for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian
approach will bring about a solution to the race problem
in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed
people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort
to violence. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
We will
have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful
words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling
silence of the good people. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
*"What
we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences
until our differences don’t make a difference in how
we are treated."
-- Yolanda
King
*The
United States of America is a nation where people
are not united because of those three glaring frailties:
racism, injustices and inequities. -- Yuri
Kochiyama
Joblessness
is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon
of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction.
Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction.
Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination
is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such
weapons of mass destruction here at home.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
*Poverty
is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon
of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass
destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction,
fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these
weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools
and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality
health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
Racism
isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son.
You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
~ Dennis Leary
*We
have come a long way in America because of Martin
Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent
revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of
values, a revolution of ideas. We’ve come a long way,
but we still have a distance to go before all of our
citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy,
what I like to call the Beloved Community, a nation
at peace with itself.
-- John
R. Lewis
“I
know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but
we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
-- Belva
Ann Lockwood
*No
one is born hating another person because of the color
of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People
must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate,
they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally
to the human heart than its opposite.
-- Nelson
Mandela
"I hate
racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations.
I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until
the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried
by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most
violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me
feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This
should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home
with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South
African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled
to a special type of justice."
-- Nelson
Mandela
*An
intensive human rights education for all communities
needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.
-- Ruth
Manorama
*It
is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won.
Never mind that history books tell us the opposite.
The psychological and material costs of war are so high
that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can
be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed
conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes
of individual and collective violence: injustice and
oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination.
We must construct a new set of values and attitudes
to replace the culture of war which, for centuries,
has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning
peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish,
on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance
and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico
Mayor
So
join with me in this campaign. Lend me your strength
and your support-and together, we will call America
home to the ideals that nourished us in the beginning.
From secrecy, and deception in high places, come home,
America...
From
military spending so wasteful that it weakens our
nation, come home, America.
From the entrenchment of special privilege and tax
favoritism-
From the waste of idle hands to the joy of useful
labor-
From the prejudice of race and sex-
From the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair
of the neglected sick, come home, America.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream.
Come home to the conviction that we can move our country
forward.
Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world.
And let us be joyful in the homecoming,
for:' this land is your land, this land is my land.
From California to the New York Islands.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
This land was made for you and me.'
May God grant us the wisdom to cherish this good land
and to meet the great challenge that beckons us home.
This is the time.
-- George
McGovern
*
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle,
or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,
not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
*"I
resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a
fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia
and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the
responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward
the elimination of any expression of discrimination
against indigenous peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
*
"Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot
exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without
development, development cannot exist without democracy,
democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity
and worth of cultures and peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
Let
us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness
and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our
faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
*We
have to build things that we want to see accomplished,
in life and in our country, based on our own personal
experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not
have to suffer the same discrimination.
-- Patsy
Mink
*
"As
believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation
to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise
above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance."
-- Queen
Noor of Jordan
I
have not been animated in my life to fight against
race and sex discrimination simply because of my
own identity. That would mean that one must be South
African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia
to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism.
And I just reject that conception of how struggles
should be waged."
-- Eleanor
Holmes Norton
*Affirmative
action is the most important modern anti-discrimination
technique ever instituted in the United States.
It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect
on discrimination. No one who knows anything about
the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly
done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked
so much opposition.
-- Eleanor
Holmes Norton
*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
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
The
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
"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
*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
*
O
Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not
understand.
-- William
Penn
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
*...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
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
*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
*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
*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
*"How
I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary
to safeguard us from discrimination.
-- Barbra
Streisand
*
"If
you judge people you have no time to love them."
-- Mother
Teresa
One
day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid
so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in
our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead
of the unique identities of each of us as complex human
beings.
~ Franklin Thomas
*"To
finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington,
Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources
of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically
developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet.
We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism,
sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace
with a land we took by force and have only partly paid
for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from
different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness
in one another. And none of us can be really free until
all of us are."
-- Robert
Thurman
*"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
Twain
The
very ink with which all history is written is merely
fluid prejudice.
-- Mark
Twain
*
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each
other, and then, in some practical way, some daily
way, figure out how to see people differently than
the way we were brought up to.
~Alice
Walker
*
I've
been in this struggle for many years now. I understand
racism. I understand that there are a lot of people
in this country who don't care about the problems
of the inner city. We have to fight every day that
we get up for every little thing that we get. And
so I keep struggling.
-- Maxine
Waters
*
“We
must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never
the victim. Silence encourages the tormentors, not the
tormented Wherever anyone is persecuted for their race
or political views, that place must become the center
of the universe.”
-- Elie
Wiesel
*
Freedom
is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and
fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone,
whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with
us or not, no matter what their race or the color of
their skin.
-- Wendell
Wilkie
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love
in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning
does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Excellence
is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-- Oprah
Winfrey
*
What
we need is not a history of selected races or nations,
but the history of the world void of national bias,
race hate, and religious prejudice.
~Carter
Woodson
The
different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence
of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates
that each race has certain gifts which the others
do not possess.
~Carter
Woodson
"My
work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic
separations to directly connect to the heart, mind,
and emotion with people.”
-- Lily
Yeh
The
historian's distortion is more than technical, it
is ideological; it is released into a world of contending
interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some
kind of interest, whether economic or political or
racial, or national or sexual.
-- Howard
Zinn
