- A race is commonly described
as the lower, the more fundamentally it differs from the white
race. Franz Boas (1858-1942) The Mind of Primitive Man, 1911.
-
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether
it comes from a black man or a white man. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
- Maurizio
Gasparri and Nelson Mandela: according to some people one
of them belongs to a lower race: guess who? Andrea Gaddini (1961-)
- 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 one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Speech in
Washington, 28th
August 1963.
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There are no lesser human being, except for racists. Andrea Gaddini (1961-)
- To live anywhere
in the world today and be against equality because of race or
color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Essays, Speeches
& Public Letters, 1966.
- It's very unusual
that the ethnic group the racialist author belongs to is not placed
at the top of his hierarchy. Tzvetan
Todorov (1939-) Nous
et les autres, 1989.
- The less a white
man is intelligent, the more the black man seems stupid to him.
André
Gide (1869-1951) Voyage
au Congo, 1927.
-
You are always the southerner of somebody. Luciano De Crescenzo (1928-2019) Così parlò
Bellavista, 1977.
- In the world there
are only two races, my grandmother used to say, those who have
and those who have not. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote,
1615,
book II, chap. XX.
- I have no race prejudices
nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know
is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he
can't be any worse. Mark Twain (1835-1910) Concerning the Jews
(Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899).
- Racism is the
expression of human brain reduced to its lowest terms. Rigoberta Menchú
(1959-)
- Fascism is treated
reading and racism is treated travelling. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
- Racists are people
who get the wrong anger. Léopold
Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)
- At the heart of
racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake
when He brought some people into being. Friedrich Otto Hertz (1878-1964)
- Racism is man's
gravest threat to man - the maximum hatred for a minimum reason. Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972)
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The twentieth-century history taught us: the racists are never
innocent. Maria
Novella Oppo article:
"Bossi e la tribù padana", l'Unità, 05/04/12
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I always knew there are no races, human brain is the same. There
are only racists. We must defeat them with the weapons of wiseness.
Rita Levi Montalcini
(1909-2012) l'Unità,
2008.
-
What he (the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian
bourgeois of the twentieth century) cannot forgive Hitler
for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not
the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white
man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied
to Europe colonialist proceures which until then had been reserved
exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the "coolies"
of India, and the "niggers" of Africa. Aimé Césaire
(1913-2008) Discorso
sul colonialismo, 1955
(translation
by Joan Pinkham):
-
It is not immigration that threatens our culture now, but nascent
fascism and neo-Nazism - with the violence and intimidation that
are associated with those political creeds - among the Maltese.
Perhaps my fellow Maltese will one day realise that it is far
better to live freely in a country where there are many immigrants,
than to live in a country where there are no immigrants, but where
one is too afraid to speak or to be different for fear of being
attacked. Daphne
Caruana Galizia (1964-2017) Press
statement, 14 May, 2006
-
I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that
my four little children will not come up in the same young days
that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of
the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Speech in
Washington, 28th
August 1963.
-
Fascism founds its culture medium in racism. The two things should
be confronted together. Carla
Nespolo (1943-2020) President
of Italian Partisans Association.
-
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. Ayn Rand (1905-1982) The Virtue of Selfishness
- TV News: "Enters
a church wearing a veil and is mistaken for a Moslem: a racist
activist attacks his bride-to-be". Simone Salis, StaiSerena, Rai Radio2, 6th March 2015
Sources:
- http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Razzismo;
- http://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Racisme;
- http://www.innatia.com/s/c-frases-citas-reflexiones/a-frases-contra-el-racismo.html
- http://www.aforismario.it/aforismi-razzismo.htm;
- http://www.pensieriparole.it/aforismi/autori/m/martin-luther-king/pag7
- https://citations.ouest-france.fr/citation-leopold-sedar-senghor/racistes-sont-gens-trompent-colere-19858.html
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