- 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).
- 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.
- Fascism is treated
reading and racism is treated travelling. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
- The less a white
man is intelligent, the more the black man seems stupid to him.
André
Gide (1869-1951) Voyage
au Congo, 1927.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- Racism is a doctrine
of, by and for brutes. Ayn
Rand (1905-1982) The
Virtue of Selfishness, 1964.
- Racists are people who get the
wrong anger. Léopold
Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)
- Racism is man's
gravest threat to man - the maximum hatred for a minimum reason. Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972)
-
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):
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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)
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You are always the southerner of somebody. Luciano De Crescenzo (1928-2019) Così parlò
Bellavista, 1977.
-
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.
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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.
-
Very often, the fanatic can only count up to one; two is too big
a figure for him or for her. Amos
Oz (1939-2018) The
Tübingen Lectures. Three Lectures, 2002.
- It's very unusual
that the ethnic group the racialist author belongs to is not placed
at the top of his hierarchy. Tzvetan
Todorov (1939-2017) Nous
et les autres, 1989.
-
Fascism founds its culture medium in racism. The two things should
be confronted together. Carla
Nespolo (1943-2020) President
of Italian Partisans Association.
-
The twentieth-century history taught us: the racists are never
innocent. Maria
Novella Oppo (1946-) article:
"Bossi e la tribù padana", l'Unità, 05/04/12
- Racism is the expression
of human brain reduced to its lowest terms. Rigoberta Menchú (1959-)
- Maurizio
Gasparri and Nelson Mandela: according to some people one
of them belongs to a lower race: guess who? Andrea Gaddini (1961-)
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There are no lesser human being, except for racists. Andrea Gaddini (1961-)
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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
- 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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