Quotes about Race
Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
- Malcolm X
God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.
- Tony Evans
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
- Sojourner Truth
Behold your hard hands and your strong frames, your masters and mistresses have soft hands and delicate constitutions, and white skins; whence this difference; 'it is the Lord's doings and marvellous in our eyes.
- Frederick Douglass
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
- Brene Brown
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!
- Malcolm X
It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race.
- Malcolm X
If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison
- Malcolm X
Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them better, these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.
- Malcolm X
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?
- Malcolm X
Is it clear why I have said that the American white man's malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army?
- Malcolm X