Bernhard von Bulow Quotes

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but, if you are talented, you will get your due. I am thankful to be part of this industry.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

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

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 want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Freedom is not enough.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

This country demands that every race measure itself by the American standard. By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail…

Create power for the powerless.

Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.

We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.

Let us do justice to them [the Jews].... Let us open to them every career in which ability and energy can be displayed. Till we have done this, let us not presume to say that there is no genius among the countrymen of Isaiah, no heroism among the descendants of the Maccabees.

There must be no revenge … Our aim is to bring people of all races together. All citizens will by equal in the eyes of the law.