Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

The Women's March hates Jews!

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

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.

The world is still very bigoted.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

You face racism in small and large ways.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Remember, this is a country where even the non-Jews know they have no rights.