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Help me build nice quotes of politicians, leaders, poets & philosophers against Racism!?

All quotes are welcome from all sources. If year is specified I will highly appreciate. Quotes from spiritual scriptures Torah, Holly Bible, Holly Quran, Veda's and Buddhist scripture and others are welcome provided that an estimate year is specified with the possible Spiritual leader name. Please avoid commandment from God since I am collecting sayings of Great Peoples in past and future.

If I will select the best answers it will be based on the following:

The Oldest and very rarely heard quote mentioning the harmony and equality between different races especially Blacks & Whites.

From Africa so far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_migration

Peace.

See below, Thanks.

Update:

632 CE

Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him)

O people! Listen and obey though a mangled Abyssinian slave is your Amir if he executes the ordinances of the Book of Allah among you. ....

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. ........

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/prophet/l...

http://www.themodernreligion.com/prophet/prophet_l...

1207 — 1273 CE

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

"Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,

Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,

Come, and come yet again.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Update 2:

1854 AD

President Abraham Lincoln:

[The Act has a] declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and epecially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principals of civil liberty—criticising the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.

Update 3:

1964 CE

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz - MalcolmX

"Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth."

"In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again — as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks."

"Since I learned the truth in Mecca my dearest friends have come to include all kinds — some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, socialists, and communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists — some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!" [5]

Update 4:

"While in Mecca, for the first time in my life, I could call a man with blond hair and blue eyes my brother."

On May 21 he returned to the United States as a traditional Sunni Muslim (and with a new name — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz). When Malcolm returned to the United States, he gave a speech about his visit. This time he gave a much larger meaning and message than before. The speech was not only for the Muslims, instead it was for the whole nation and for all races. He said above:

Malcolm X meeting with Martin Luther King Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

Update 5:

Thanks ammu for refering to Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagrah.

I found many for religious tolerance like followings. If you know one regarding color racism please post. That will be a treasure.

Gandhi’s “Zionism and Anti-Semitism” against religius racsim.

"Yes I am. I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew."

"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."

Update 6:

bgood_26 go double check your source about Prophet Mohammad sayings.

Mahatma Gandhi:

"The sayings of Muhammad are a treasure of wisdom, not only for Muslims but for all of mankind."

My source is wikipedia. Don’t just quote something associating words for someone you don’t know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi

Thanks

Update 7:

Thanks for help & being positive:

http://www.geocities.com/faruqiss/

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    “A NATION OF WHITE SUPREMACIST IMMIGRANTS”?

    Illegal aliens are undermining the U.S. economy and security, while also posing an increasing threat to United States nation security.

    Americans preserving our common heritage as Americans have been labeled as white supremacist. The reason being is, for expressing and acknowledging the importance of gaining the total control of the U.S. boarders, downsizing the resident immigration population and severely restricting new immigration. They also believe that their government should actively restrict immigration.

    The concern with the cultural, economic, environmental, and security impact of the influx of immigrants does not necessarily arise from racist, xenophobic, or supremacist beliefs. It is the result of American citizens own experiences with the efforts of a large and expanding immigrant population in their communities. The fact is immigration is the significant factor in U.S. population growth and over use of the countries social and health and education programs by illegal aliens.

    Security, economy, and party interest are well and good, but the fundamental issue in immigration debate is who we are and what sort of nation we want to be.

    You cannot expect millions of illegal aliens from one civilization to enter the country, abandon all loyalties and values of their old civilization and sign up, with all of those of the new one they have entered. The marching immigrants of recent days commanded by their puppeteers behind their movement demanded for full rights of American citizens and will settle for nothing less. These immigrants are insincere and America has to question their loyalty towards the United States.

    The time has come to demand enforcement of our laws concerning illegal immigration and to severely limit legal immigration.

    Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism has raised apprehension about the expanding Muslim population in the United States. Illegal immigration is directly linked to terrorism in the United States.

    Washington must allocate the resources to detain and deport illegals and should start enforcing long-standing laws against employing aliens lawbreakers. A deafening roar of racism will result–but with the country at war, pandering to the race advocates must give way to protecting American lives.

    Family reunification of immigrants with their families should take place by reuniting them with their families in their home countries where they have left spouses and children. Some even starting new families in America while abandoning their family in their native countries. There is widespread public conviction that U.S. immigration policy and U.S. boarders are out of control.

    Population control in the United States is synonymous with immigration control. Population statistics began to show – as the they still do – that the main source of population growth in the United States is the expanding first – and second - generation immigrant population.

    High immigration flows are diluting our national identity and turning the United States into foreign isolated secret societies. Our nation is losing it’s American core values. We certainly need to expose the impact of immigration on urban sprawl and resource depletion. We must have a population – environment balance and oppose mass immigration. We need to establish English as the official language in the United States. Immigration is a ticking Time Bomb. Practicing the look the other way open – boarder policy doesn’t work. Immigrants have uncontrollably flowed into the United States.

    President Bush administration of “Big Business” Policies and thirst for cheap labor and unsecured boarders and ports leave the United States venerable to terrorist attacks and damage the economy. Yet they are the first one’s to point the finger at the Americans and call them the anti-immigration camp, that is not compassionate to illegal aliens. When at the same time they are damaging the U.S. infrastructure. The Immigration puppeteer behind the illegal immigration marches are mostly made up of illegal aliens. The marches should be viewed as terrorism Our government refuses to intervene or act in any manner controlling these intruders.

    American citizens have emerged as grass roots patriots. They are growing in numbers protecting America from the mass invasion of foreign nationals. American citizens have taken to the boarder in Protest, patrolling our souther boarders. They have organized hundreds of volunteers from around the nation to patrol the boarders and help apprehend immigrants. This is a direct challenge to the American government to do their jobs.

    We must take our country back and if that means removing elected officials, so be it. The famous bumper sticker slogan below says it all:

    “Mass Immigration = Life boat USA sinking”

    We must veto, reject any bill to permit undocumented residents to obtain driver’s licenses and citizenship of any kind of amnesty. We must mandate that government workers, including teachers, check immigration status and deny services to those in the United States illegally. Secure our boarder and ports and build a 700 mile fence. Good fences make good neighbors. We need to send a strong message that if you want to be an American go through the legal and proper chains of command.

    Also the media and our government and the nations people, need to send a strong message to all the illegal aliens carrying upside down American Flags and derogatory signs against Americans while they’re Demanding Immediate, Unconditional, Amnesty. That they need to STOP calling the real American patriots, “A Nation Of White Suprentist Immigrants”.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You want quotes about racism, you need to quote the racists as well.

    "I am anti-white. I don't limit my 'anti' to just one group of people." --Sonny Carson (black activist in New York, when asked if he was anti-Semitic)

    "Integration of blacks and whites -- but even more so, poor and well-to-do -- is less likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable." --Pat Buchanan

    "According to the Prophet's [Mohammad] order, the Muslims must fight the Jews and kill them wherever they may be." --Hamas Principle of Faith #4

    "White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because n***ers are basically primitive animals." --David Duke

    "California is going to be a Hispanic State and anyone who doesn't like it should leave. They should go back to Europe." --Mario Obledo, President of the Californian Coalition of Hispanic Organizations

  • 1 decade ago

    I guess I am a racist because I would love to see my Grandchildren grow up in the same country I did. I have been to California and can tell you it looks like Mexico, I even saw chickens running loose in Bakersfield. They are turning our country into mexico. California is in the Crapper!

  • 1 decade ago

    The immigration issue's mainly about people trying to enter the country illegally. I know you like to throw the race card etc., but if you did you homework, you'd see that there's illegal immigrants from all over the world...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Have you read this book and what are your view or answers to the list below from this book?

    The Truth About Muhammad

    by Robert Spencer

    Meet the real Muhammad:

    Muhammad's bizarre reaction to his first "revelation": "I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself"

    The heretical Christian who convinced Muhammad he was a prophet – and may have taught him his erroneous views of Christianity

    Islamic borrowings from Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism – and Muhammad's enraged replies to charges that he borrowed material rather than received actual divine revelations

    The "revelation" that allowed Muhammad to marry his beautiful daughter-in-law

    The strange incident in Muhammad's life that makes it virtually impossible to prove rape in Islamic countries today

    The real "Satanic Verses" incident (not the Salman Rushdie version): how Muhammad's attempt to win over his opponents ended with his saying he had been inspired not by God, but by Satan

    How the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed – with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage

    The first year of the Muslim calendar: not when Muhammad was born or became a prophet, but when he became a warlord

    How Muhammad used the graphic lure of Islamic Paradise to urge his warriors to fight furiously to extend his rule

    "Kill every Jew who comes into your power": why Muhammad became so angry with both Jews and Christians – with disastrous consequences that are still playing out in the world today

    The momentous command by Muhammad that led to good being identified with anything that benefited the Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them --without reference to any larger moral standard

    Muhammad's child bride – and the terrible consequences his marriage to a nine-year-old still has in the Islamic world

    "This is the caravan of the Quraysh possessing wealth. It is likely that Allah may give it to you as booty": how Muhammad gave divine sanction to the Muslims' bloody raids

    "War is deceit": the permission Muhammad gave his followers to lie in order to gain an advantage over their enemies

    How Muhammad broke the principal treaty he entered into, again setting a pattern for Muslim states thereafter

    Muhammad's commands to his followers to wage perpetual war against non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians

    Muhammad on women's rights: women "are prisoners with you having no control of their persons"

    "If justice is not to be found with me then where will you find it?" Why Muhammad still stands for Muslims as the supreme model for human behavior

    "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula, and will not leave any but Muslims" – and other statements by Muhammad that contemporary jihadists take very seriously

    Islamic tolerance? The onerous tax burden and other discriminatory regulations mandated for non-Muslims under Islamic law

    How Muhammad ordered the killing of apostates from Islam

    The massacre of a Jewish tribe by Muhammad that was invoked by modern-day jihadists at the beginning of Israel's July 2006 operations against Hizballah in Lebanon

    "Embrace Islam, and your lives and property will be safe": Muhammad's threatening letters to the rulers of the lands around Arabia

    Muhammad's frequent avowals that the Muslims would overcome the empires bordering on Arabia and one day stand as masters of the world

    "I have been made victorious with terror" – and other statements of Muhammad on his deathbed

    Six steps that American leaders can and must take in order to protect our nation from Islamic jihad terrorism

  • 1 decade ago

    mahatma gandhi quotes at south africa and later india are very good, particularly satyagrah.

  • 1 decade ago

    Holy, the word is spelled holy, not holly.

  • Yakuza
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Please play the race card some where else.I agree with gokart.

  • 1 decade ago

    Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech", 8/28/63. His dream is closer to coming true now, and I, personally, think it is a good thing. Illegal immigration is a totally different issue and is not a good thing. It undermines the integrity of the Constitution for the USA citizen. M. L. King's dream speech enbraces it.

    http://www.holidays.net/mlk/speech.htm

    The Text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s

    "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Aug. 28, 1963

    I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

    Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of ***** slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the ***** is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the ***** is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

    One hundred years later, the ***** lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the ***** is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

    In a sense we have come to our Nation's Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

    This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

    It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the ***** people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

    But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.

    We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

    Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.

    Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

    Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

    Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children.

    It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of it's colored citizens. This sweltering summer of the *****'s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the ***** needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

    There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the ***** is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

    But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

    Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

    The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the ***** community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

    And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the ***** is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

    We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

    We cannot be satisfied as long as the *****'s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

    We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only."

    We cannot be satisfied as long as a ***** in Mississippi cannot vote and a ***** in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

    No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

    I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

    You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

    Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

    Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

    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.

    I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

    I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

    I have a dream today.

    I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

    I have a dream today.

    I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

    This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

    With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

    With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

    This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"

    And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

    Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

    Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

    Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

    But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

    Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and every mountainside.

    And when this happens, when we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

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