Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes

Please do not think me terribly narrow, but Sinha is comparatively white, whilst Muckerji is black as my hat!

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

Foolish and vain indeed is the workingman who makes the color of his skin the stepping-stone to his imaginary superiority.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Certainly let the black man have the franchise on the same terms as the white man, but while a Kaffir may make as good a Prime Minister as Lord Beaconsfield, for at least the next hundred years we shall not choose to be ruled by him.

The Pole must never be your comrade. He is inferior to each German on his farm or in his factory. Be just but never forget, but never forget that you are a member of the Master Race.

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people - that we were superior.

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.