LZ Granderson Quotes

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Today, Americans of all races stand side by side in Vietnam and Berlin. They died side by side in Korea. Surely they can work and eat and travel side by side in their own country.

Everyone is my equal, and that is transferred to my music.

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

I just treat every race the same.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

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

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.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.