Russell Simmons Quotes

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't believe some people would treat other human beings like they weren't even the same species.

The heart never knows the colour of the skin

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

No one is born hating others.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

If you have any racist friends, it's on you to stop that immediately and let them know why that's not right, or what's wrong with the way they think or just opening their eyes and allowing them to understand what's wrong with their thought process because, to be honest, I mean, we're all human.

I think we should not accept and tolerate racism anywhere, in any game, whether it's a friendly game or a World Cup final, or it's a Champions League final.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

I've been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I've been treated bad by the whitest of white persons. I've been treated bad by the blackest of black persons and treated good by the blackest of black persons. So at the end of the day, I know it's about humanity - do you have a good heart or a bad heart?

Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation we have, the more of a problem that's going to be.

I just want to see more understanding and less racism in sports.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.