“ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ”
- Mark Pryor- Copy
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“ They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. ”
- Sitting Bull- Copy
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“ The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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“ There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ”
- Kelly Millar- Copy
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“ I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. ”
- Mariah Carey- Copy
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“ A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ”
- Saul Alinsky- Copy
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“ If we tell ourselves that the only problem is hate, we avoid facing the reality that it is mostly nice, nonhating people who perpetuate racial inequality. ”
- Ellis Cose- Copy
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“ Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. ”
- Kenneth B. Clark- Copy
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“ All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society… ”
- John Kennedy- Copy
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“ Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I want Latina women to realize that you can't just consider yourself Latin when you're in America. You have to hold on to your roots. Culture is something you NEVER want to lose. I like influencing Latina women into knowing that there's a chance to rise above the racial barriers… ”
- Michelle Rodriguez- Copy
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“ When I get a college brochure, the first thing I look for is racial diversity. If I don't see a few minority faces in the pictures, I toss it aside, because who wants to go to some podunk college that can't even afford Photoshop? ”
- Bill Muse- Copy
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“ Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream. ”
- David Horowitz- Copy
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“ Take out of nationalism the blind prejudice, the over-organization, the self-interest for territory and for gold, and you remove its fangs. You then have left a political system for common betterment, a community of ideals, concrete enthusiasms, a means of effective training, racial and geographical cohesions, and programs to direct the lives of the people. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me. ”
- Shirley Geok lin Lim- Copy
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“ The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources. ”
- Kenneth B. Clark- Copy
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“ If we — and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create the consciousness of others — do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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