Quotes About Racial Differences

#1. Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Josephine Lawrence

#2. People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Bob Cousy

#3. The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.

Bryan Stevenson

#4. A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Terry Gross

#5. In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

Octavia E. Butler

#6. The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

Adolf Hitler

#7. I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Barry Manilow

#8. The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.

Nelson Algren

#9. As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

John Muir

#10. The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Napoleon Hill

#11. True prosperity is an incredible gift. It's a gift YOU deserve. And no matter what anyone says, it's a gift that IS available to you - right now.

Joe Vitale

#12. If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Garry Winogrand

#13. I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Kate Moss

#14. There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus ... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Brian Molko

#15. You see, I tell myself. Here is proof. I've known Christina my whole life. And yes, maybe there are differences between us - socioeconomic, political, racial - but that doesn't mean we can't connect, human to human, friend to friend.

Jodi Picoult

#16. (One of the great emancipating results of genomics is to show that all "racial" and color differences are recent, superficial, and misleading.)

Christopher Hitchens

#17. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.

Jordan Peele

#18. The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

Robert Kennedy

#19. The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

Aberjhani

#20. Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Bryce Courtenay

#21. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

#22. Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

Matthew Arnold

#23. The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

Celeste Ng

#24. Oh, God, if that's where this woman had gotten her Sophie Mercer gossip, I was surprised she'd greeted me with a handshake instead of an exorcism.

Rachel Hawkins

#25. Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

Jessica Lynch

#26. I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

#27. Racial antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also generated, perhaps predominantly, by differences of acquired culture - of language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

Will Durant

#28. For Rostropovich, every single note that he played had a special kind of human meaning behind it. And this was something that he expressed and demanded of everyone who worked with him, who wanted to rise up to that level.

David Finckel

#29. It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

Ricardo Lagos

#30. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada