Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

The author of the Declaration of Independence and his associates declared equal rights impracticable in society constituted of masses of different races

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Even though the founders were aggressive in pursuing liberty, their quest for equality failed to include all.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.

We still have work to do in our efforts to advance equal rights for all Americans.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

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

Treat him as a man; go into his home and learn of his social conditions; learn of his cares, his troubles, and his hopes for the future; gain his confidence; open the doors of industry to him; let the word “negro,” “colored,” and “black” be stricken from all the organizations enumerated in the federation of labor.

Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color.