Quotes About Equality

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn't matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

My whole life, I've been hearing, 'He's good for a white boy'... My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don't feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can't do something.

In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation.

I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.