Rosa Parks Quotes

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

This is a racist country.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

Negroes are not qualified to be integrated within his command. When I find them qualified, they will be integrated.