Mitch Hedberg Quotes

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

People don't want to be thought of as racists ... all polls tend to over-report tolerance.

On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa Conference taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson:, That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned:, That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes;, That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained;, And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will;, Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

I always had my views on racial tolerance. I couldn't see why anyone would dislike or to the nth degree hate someone simply because they were a different color.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.