Bob Marley Quotes

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

Unless we bring in blacks as full partners, my country won’t be fit for my grandchildren.

No man’s fundamental rights should depend on the colour of his skin.

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

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

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.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.