Barry McGuire Quotes

I'm here to say all lives matter.

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

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

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color.

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

I am an enemy of racism

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.