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Where
are the unusual individuals, the daring pioneers, who will devote their lives
to making a better history for humanity? In order to create a new history for
mankind, human beings will first have to create a new history within themselves.
They will have to liberate themselves from national, religious, racial, and class
prejudices and from enslavement to honor, fame, and pleasure...
-- Frederick
Kettner
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"I
believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have
a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice...
-- Coretta Scott
King
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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.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr |  |
"We have ancient
habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems
to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and
impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible
and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put
an end to poverty and racial injustice."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one
with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other
distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American
dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege
and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities
from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not
argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character;
a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves
alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a
country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
-- Martin Luther King,
Jr "If the
moderates of the white South fail to act now, history will have to record that
the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident
clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
, 1958 In
our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see
at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the
Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle
for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will
bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual
reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort
to violence.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr We
will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions
of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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"What
we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences
don’t make a difference in how we are treated."
-- Yolanda
King |  |
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The United
States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three
glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
--
Yuri Kochiyama |  |
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Joblessness
is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger
is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction.
Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of
mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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Poverty
is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction,
homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction,
fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our
commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and
quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.
-- Dennis
Kucinich |
Racism isn't
born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps!
End of list.
~ Dennis Leary
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We have
come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined,
nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution
of ideas. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all
of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like
to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.
-- John
R. Lewis |
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“I know we can't abolish
prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
-- Belva Ann Lockwood
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No one
is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background,
or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they
can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its
opposite.
-- Nelson
Mandela
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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
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An intensive
human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the
old prejudices.
-- Ruth
Manorama |  |
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It is
a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books
tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high
that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace
means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes
of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and
poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values
and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing
the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish,
on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from
which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico
Mayor |
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join with me in this campaign. Lend me your strength and your support-and together,
we will call America home to the ideals that nourished us in the beginning.
From secrecy, and deception in high places, come home, America...
From
military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
From the entrenchment of special privilege and tax favoritism-
From the waste
of idle hands to the joy of useful labor-
From the prejudice of race and
sex-
From the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected
sick, come home, America.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream.
Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.
Come
home to the belief that we can seek a newer world.
And let us be joyful in
the homecoming,
for:' this land is your land, this land is my land.
From California to the New York Islands.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf
Stream waters.
This land was made for you and me.'
May God grant us
the wisdom to cherish this good land and to meet the great challenge that beckons
us home. This is the time.
-- George McGovern
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We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and
we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
-- Rigoberta Menchu
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"I resolutely
believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication
of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility
of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of
discrimination against indigenous peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu *
"Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness
cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy,
democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures
and peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu |  |
Let us forget such
words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance,
Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and
free.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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We have
to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country,
based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not
have to suffer the same discrimination.
-- Patsy
Mink |
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"As believers we all
have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground;
to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance."
-- Queen
Noor of Jordan |
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I have
not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply
because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to
fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to
fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should
be waged."
-- Eleanor
Holmes Norton *
Affirmative
action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted
in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on
discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't
worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so
much opposition.
-- Eleanor
Holmes Norton |
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