Muhammad Ali Quotes

I am loyal to my country and know but reverence to her flag. But I shall never submit to fight beneath that banner with a negro at my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt, never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels …

No white man at the South serves another as his body servant to clean his boots, wait on his table, and perform menial services in his household!”

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

The world is still very bigoted.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

It is not slave emancipation, but the fact that blacks are being placed on an equal footing with Christians, contrary to the laws of God and the natural distinction of race and religion.

Blacks were so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

I don't believe in segregation. I believe in slavery.

There is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people to remain with us ... Even when you cease to be slaves, you are far removed from being placed on an equality with the white man ... I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Negroes are almost too ignorant to eat, scarcely wise enough to breathe, mere existing human machines.

America was founded on the basis of racism and bigotry.

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.