Famous Anti Racism Quotes

A Canadian

If the white race were not racist; but, even more importantly; if those who are wholly or even partially of  the black race, or other visible minorities, were not even more so; if only we were all truly Canadian; there would be nobody left to be interested in reading about, or practising  anti-racism; or in reading anti-racist propaganda.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. Thurgood Marshall
	And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight. John Lennon
	Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. Mary Mccarthy
	As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. E. J. Hobsbawm
	As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. Harper Lee
	I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin. Bishop Desmond Tutu
	I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. Alexis De Tocqueville
	I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Susan Sontag
	I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. Michael Jordan
	I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. Bill Cosby