*
"If
you judge people you have no time to love them."
-- Mother
Teresa
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. ~ Franklin Thomas
*"To
finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington,
Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources
of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically
developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet.
We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism,
sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace
with a land we took by force and have only partly paid
for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from
different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness
in one another. And none of us can be really free until
all of us are."
-- Robert
Thurman
*"I have
no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know
is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
-- Mark Twain
The very ink
with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. -- Mark
Twain
*
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some
practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the
way we were brought up to. ~Alice
Walker
*
I've been in this struggle
for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of
people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We
have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And
so I keep struggling. -- Maxine
Waters
*
“We must take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentors,
not the tormented Wherever anyone is persecuted for their race or political views,
that place must become the center of the universe.” -- Elie
Wiesel
*
Freedom
is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared
to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with
us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin. -- Wendell
Wilkie
*
Love is what we are
born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear
and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential
reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience
love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in
things. Meaning lies in us. -- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
* Excellence
is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. -- Oprah
Winfrey
*
What we need is not
a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national
bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. ~Carter
Woodson
The
different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority.
This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not
possess. ~Carter Woodson
"My
work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly
connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.” -- Lily
Yeh
The historian's
distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world
of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest,
whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual. -- Howard
Zinn
