“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.” HomeEarthNamesNationsChanceCitiesSkinsPraiseGreenHere And ThereWorkshopsGreen Earth Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down” MenNationsTaughtSkinsStationsFlagsCrownsStand Alone Author:Elvis Costello
“There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.” PeopleWayGivingCountryNationsWhiteLandRacismSkinsDown AndServantBowsBirthrightWhite PrivilegeWhite Skin Book:Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform Source: Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform
“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.” KnowsMeanLightFormGivenNationsDarkPoorPowerfulClassRichColorWeakSkinsContinentsColonialismExploitationConsentColonySubjugationDark Skin Author:John F. Kennedy
“Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.” MadeWarRealHateFightingLanguageNationsBornEnemyFateReadySkinsSmellJealousAntagonist Author:Jean Giraudoux
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!” ChildrenLittlesStatesCharacterDreamTodayAbleTogetherNationsJusticeFourColorSonOne DayRedSkinsTablesSlaveInjusticeOppressionFormerHillsHeatOwnersBrotherhoodJudgedTransformedGeorgiaMississippiOasisSlave OwnersInjustice And Oppression Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.” LooksCharacterWantedIndividualNationsWonderNeededConnectionsSkinsMain Characters Author:Steven Knight
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ChildrenLittlesCharacterDreamNationsJusticeFourTeachingIdentityColorKingsIntegrityOne DaySpeechDiversityRacismSkinsHuman RightsConservativeEqualitySillyDiscriminationAfrican AmericanHypocrisyBlack PeopleJudgedAmerican DreamDiverseAmerican HistorySentimentalGood CharacterI Had A DreamUnity In DiversityOregonSkin ColorEquality And JusticeBeing EqualHappy ChildrenIntegrity And CharacterIntegrity CharacterEquality Of PeopleEquality For AllI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechAnti RacistKings And LoveBeing JudgedGood KingsSocial EqualityPeaceful ProtestSlave OwnersInjustice And OppressionAnti DiscriminationBlack SkinRacism And PrejudiceDark SkinnedJustice EqualityJudge Of CharacterTolerance And DiversityBrown SkinMarch On WashingtonPolitical EqualityRace And ColorDefects Of CharacterTrue EqualityAfrican RacePreschool Children Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.” PeopleWorldLooksSaidDifferentRealityNationsOne ThingGroupsThis WorldDrugPerceptionSkinsTownsChaosMessDesertDeceivingPerception Reality Author:Ted Dekker
“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!” MenHumansWarPhilosophyEyeNationsRaceClassRightsColorCitizensRacismSkinsRegardHuman RightsSuperiorsHis EyesAbandonedInferiorsAnti RacismBasic Human Rights Author:Bob Marley
“I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.” IfsTwoFallNationsInformationHusbandBirdSkinsAgreeFalling In LoveDeterminedBeastAgreementRepublicMy SisterTreatiesUncannyTwo Nations Book:Deathless Source: Deathless