Race And Racism

(443 votes)   Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(319 votes)   We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(311 votes)   And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon
1940-1980, British Rock Musician

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(272 votes)   So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

Ronald Reagan
1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor

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(255 votes)   The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(244 votes)   Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.

Alexander Cockburn
1941-, Anglo-Irish Journalist

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(242 votes)   The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

Sir Ronald Mason

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(231 votes)   At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

Bernard Cooper

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(231 votes)   Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Vegetius
fl. C. 375, Roman Writer

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(223 votes)   I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Michael Jordan
1963-, American Basketball Player, Actor

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(139 votes)   Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

Spike Lee
1956-, American Film director

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(138 votes)   Our true nationality is mankind.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(137 votes)   If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(131 votes)   As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Harper Lee
1926-, American Author

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(130 votes)   Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

Mary Mccarthy
1912-1989, American Author, Critic

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