| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
A nation … is just a society for hating foreigners. |
Olaf Stapledon | 1886 – 1950 | |
All colours will agree in the dark. |
Francis Bacon | 1561 – 1626 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929 – 1968 | |
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. |
Bertrand Russell | 1872- 1970 | |
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929 – 1968 | |
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929 – 1968 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
You are blinded by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! |
J. K. Rowling | born 1965 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. |
Sammy Davis Jnr. | 1925 – 1990 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’ |
Colin Powell | born 1937 | |
You’re tired of hearing about it? (racism) Imagine how freaking tiring it must be living through it. |
Jon Stewart | born 1962 | |
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. |
J. K. Rowling | born 1965 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
The poor are Europe’s blacks. |
Nicolas-Sèbastien Chamfort | 1741 – 1794 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse—German. |
Emperor Charles V | 1500 – 1558 | Attributed Oxford dictionary of quotations |
It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,’ said the Postmaster General, ‘The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.’ |
Roald Dahl | 1916 – 1990 | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator |