Alveda King Quotes

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

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.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

One of my key areas of unification is to champion multiracialism. Multiracialism is vital to unity.

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

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

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 always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

Unless we bring in blacks as full partners, my country won’t be fit for my grandchildren.

The one peace possible: A homeland for everybody.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

Irishmen and Irishwomen! treat the colored people as your equals, as brethren.

Though black your skins as shades of night, Your hearts are pure, your souls are white.

Racial lines, which once were bitterly real, now serve nothing more than marking out a living mosaic of human beings. And even here men of the same color are like the ivory keys of one instrument where each resembles all the rest, yet varies from them in pitch and quality of voice.