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Racial profiling has to stop. -- Bobby Rush
Racial inequality is a big problem. -- Hillary Clinton
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. -- Trent Lott
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it. -- Brian Sandoval
Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society. -- Rinku Sen
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it... -- Spencer W. Kimball
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. -- Jonathan Kozol
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community. -- Rosa Parks
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. -- Kenneth Clark
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. -- William O. Douglas
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail. -- James Fallows
Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart. -- Billy Graham
Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate. -- Kelly Miller
Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be. -- Jan Brewer
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. -- Oliver Tambo
Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together. -- Rush Limbaugh
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. -- Earl Warren
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create. -- Thomas Cole
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them. -- Paul Mooney
The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the Soul of the Race, which, after a period of long slumber, victoriously put an End to Racial Chaos. -- Alfred Rosenberg
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President'). -- Rick Perlstein
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. -- Jimmy Carter
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. -- Don King
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. -- Charlotte Bunch
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. -- David Duke
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. -- Duane Chapman
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. -- Malcolm X
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. -- Dave Matthews
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. -- John Lewis
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. -- Jesse Jackson
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. -- John Clayton
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. -- Jerry Brown
Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. -- Eminem
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. -- James A. Forbes
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise. -- John Lewis
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair. -- Randall Kennedy
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization. -- iO Tillett Wright
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country. -- Barack Obama
We are about to have a racial explosion. -- Malcolm X
Bullets ain't racial, kid...they only hate you. -- Kool G Rap
[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred. -- Rick Santorum
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. -- Roy Ayers
Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam -- Geraldo Rivera
... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. -- Shirley Chisholm
Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. -- Ron Fournier
Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national. -- Philip Wylie
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. -- Joe Klein
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery. -- Manisha Sinha
The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding... -- Nicolas Sarkozy
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. -- Oliver Tambo
I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems. -- Sly Stone
A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. -- Fritz Todt
Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades." -- Fritz Todt
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. -- Sidney Poitier
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. -- Kelly Miller
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination. -- Desmond Tutu
A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish! -- Julius Streicher
The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group. -- William O. Douglas
At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers. -- Billy Graham
I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse. -- Lynn Swann
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots. -- Jessica Savitch
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. -- Michelle Alexander
Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers -- Donald McGavran
Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan. -- John M. Perkins
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. -- Gore Vidal
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it -- Michelle Alexander
I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it. -- Deshaun Watson
There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world. -- Shekhar Kapur
As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. -- Jamie Foxx
Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings. -- Kara Walker
Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better. -- Dean Spade
Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling. -- Mary Kissel
A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government. -- Hillary Clinton
The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white. -- James A. Baldwin
[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler. -- Mary Matalin
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? -- Gloria Steinem
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality -- Barack Obama
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. -- Wyclef Jean
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. -- Lester B. Pearson
The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. -- Adolf Hitler
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely -- Thurgood Marshall
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. -- Michael Jackson
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order. -- Kamisese Mara
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. -- Sade Adu
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. -- Joseph Stalin
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. -- Henry L. Stimson
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. -- Thurgood Marshall
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such. -- J. Philippe Rushton
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths -- Che Guevara
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race. -- Strom Thurmond
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. -- Muhammad Ali
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion. -- Adolf Hitler
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. -- Trevor Noah
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots. -- Nina Jacobson
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. -- Jane Alexander
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. -- Yvette Clarke
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. -- Harry S. Truman
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children. -- George W. Bush
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. -- Angela Davis
I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. -- Napoleon Hill
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy. -- Heinrich Himmler
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. -- Jonathan Kozol
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. -- John Oliver Killens
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. -- Barack Obama
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. -- Margaret Sanger

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