Discrimination Based on Skin Color Quotes

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

I've never been to Ukraine, but I have heard it's very dangerous for a black man. There are crazy racists who have already sent me death threats.

I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

The mulatto is faulty stock, a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

I would employee all colored men as laborers, but would not promise to make soldiers of them

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

There are cops who be racially profiling.