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“We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.”

People Color Prejudice Jew

Author:Muhammad Ali

“It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.”

World Wells Said Dream Happens Today Color Prejudice Forests Anarchism Anarchist True Colors Hatchet

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.”

Thinking Mind May Problem Lying Knowing Color Personality Prejudice Structure Bottom Lurking

Author:Gerry Spence

“Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?”

Ifs Knows Humans Hate Human Beings Color Concepts Skins Prejudice Racial Prejudice Baffled

Book:Rants

Source: Rants

“The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.”

Men Soul Eye Passion Color Prejudice Appearance Observation Yellow Jaundice

Author:Isaac Watts

“The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.”

Men Way Firsts Young Black Color Protect Judgment Prejudice Best Way Brown

Author:Hill Harper

“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.”

Color Prejudice Responsible Folks Kernel

Book:The Blacker the Berry

Source: The Blacker the Berry

“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.”

Men Justice Race Rights Conditions Color Eternal Prejudice Calm Scales Golden Dust Shakes Balanced Castes

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.”

Ifs Doe Suffering Evil Opportunity White Poor Poverty Color Weight Prejudice Mark Discrimination Confused Humiliation Degradation Oppressors Deprivation Badges Chained

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.”

Firsts Humans Felt Human Beings Color First Time Prejudice Russia Mississippi

Author:Paul Robeson

“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.”

Men Want Law Color Brother Prejudice Brotherhood In-laws Brother In Law

Author:Booker T. Washington