Race

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Quotations about race

• "All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction." ~ Jesse Helms

• "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." ~ Bertrand Russell

• "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.
  Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said, 'That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken'.
  Then these three white boys came up to me and said, 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin'. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.' So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, 'Line up, boys!'" ~ Dick Gregory

• "We should all take a lesson from Crayons. There are many different kinds, some are beautiful, some are plain, and some have weird names, But they all have to learn to live in the same box, so why can't we all learn to live in the same world?." ~ T.G.S.R.

• "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

• "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." ~ Harry Blackmun

• "It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show, and the host said, 'Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?' So I looked at the camera and said, 'Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate.'" ~ Margaret Cho

• "A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'" ~ Margaret Cho

• "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes; of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours." ~ Pat Buchanan

• A nigga'll rob you, then come over the next day and say "I heard you got robbed" ~ Chris Rockde:Rassismus

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