Edgar Davids Quotes

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

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.

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

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

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

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

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

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.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

It is now time to mobilize, before it is too late, against the creeping legitimacy of racism in our society.

Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

Any racism towards anybody, it's not acceptable.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express a lot of things. When it happened to me, I couldn't believe it, and in that moment, I decided to walk off the pitch.

We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices to our own families, accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is - wrong.