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  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

    Peace   Kings   Truth  
    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964
  • Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

    Lying   Judging   Racism  
  • Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

    Life   Powerful   Past  
  • It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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

    Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
  • Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

    Time   Prejudice   Facts  
  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  • The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

    Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media
  • Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

    John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: Tracts and letters on various subjects”, p.400
  • 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.

    Dream   Kings   Children  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

    Racism   People   Want  
    Source: alainelkanninterviews.com
  • Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

    FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 02, 2013
  • One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  • The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press
  • I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

    Thurgood Marshall's acceptance speech for the Liberty Medal at the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, genius.com. July 4, 1992.
  • Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

    Art   Successful   Order  
  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press
  • The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

  • Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  • I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

    Love   Faith   Peace  
    "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.
  • Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

  • I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press
  • O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

  • ...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

    Racism   Racist   Action  
  • We must dissent from the fear.

    Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

    Dream   Kings   Kids  
  • Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  • Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

    Ignorance   Men   Racism  
    Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52
  • Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

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