“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Abraham J. Heschel quotes (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972)
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.” Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes
“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin” Adolf Hitler quotes (German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party, 1889-1945)
“Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.” atlian05 Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)
“At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being” Friedrich Otto Hertz quotes
“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man’s court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.” Nelson Mandela quotes (South African Statesman First democratically elected State President of South Africa (1994), 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace, b.1918)
“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.” Harry A. Blackmun quotes (American Supreme Court justice, 1908-1999)
“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work” Angela Davis quotes
“The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.” Pierre de Coubertin quotes (French Educator, primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894. 1863-1937)
“A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.” A. Whitney Brown quotes
“I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” Miriam Makeba quotes (South African singer, b.1932)
