Marva Collins Quotes

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

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.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

I've not experienced racism from other players. Not once. You experience ignorance but that's not the same at all, and I'm always happy to discuss things. If that helps people learn about Islam, to learn there's nothing to fear, then great, that's all part of my role.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.

I want to create resolution and inclusion, so I created Black Santa because his eyes see no color.

I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.