Race Prejudice Quotes

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

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

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.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

For all Sunday’s denouncing of sins, he never mentioned rotten, stinking, hell-born race prejudice. It is pitiable when we think of the thousands of white men in this country, claiming to be ministers of the gospel,—claiming to be ambassadors of God, representatives of Jesus Christ; and yet sitting down quietly in the midst of this spreading leprosy of race prejudice, and doing nothing to stay its ravages, content to have it spread, and to curse, as it is doing, both races,—embittering the Negro and debasing the white man.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

This really vital and sensitive military installation has been wrecked – more thoroughly than any Soviet saboteur could have dreamed of doing it… [through] the process of witch-hunting, sheer bigotry, cowardice, race prejudice and sheer incompetence.