Sadiq Kahn Quotes

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

There are only two positions, either you support multiculturalism in American education, or you support the maintenance of white supremacy.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

I don't think we can undo the past. … We have to do the best we can now...I don't think quotas are a good idea...I don't think quotas are a good idea. I think it is a mistake to begin to assign quotas on the basis of religion or race or color, or nationality. … We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.