Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes

… the color of the skin is a condition entirely to be disregarded … I have little patience with … any other tests than those of regularity, character, manhood, and intelligence.

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

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.

Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.