Michael Phelps Quotes

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

I want a fair housing bill. We’ve got to end this Goddamn discrimination against Negroes. Until people, whether they’re purple, brown, black, yellow, red, green, or whatever – live together, they’ll never know they have the same hopes for their children, the same fears, troubles, woes, ambitions.

Hereafter in the enlistment of men in the Army... no distinction whatsoever shall be made on account of race or color

The colored employees of the Government shall be treated precisely as the whites are treated. If they attend to their duty they will not be disturbed.

Equality is equity.

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.

It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.

I get treated like everyone else, and that's the way it should be.

I just treat every race the same.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his 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.

That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.

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

There is only one race ... and it is human!

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.