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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_migra...
Peace.
See below, Thanks.
632 A.C
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. ........
1854 A.D.
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.
Thanks ammu for referring 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 religious racism.
"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."
1964 C.A.
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]
"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.
1207-1273 Rumi
Jalal al-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.[
In generosity and helping others, be like a river
In compassion and grace, be like the sun
In concealing other's faults, be like the night
In anger and fury, be like dead
In modesty and humility, be like the earth
In tolerance, be like the sea
Either appear as you are, or be as you appear.
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Helen Keller said. ' One of the benefits of education is tolerance'. well said , in my book.
- Allison LLv 61 decade ago
I would avoid anything that has come out of the White House in the last 6 years. Give me a minute, I'll find something.
"How can you enslave people when their mothers had them born free?"
Omar Bin Al-Khottob
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbirtary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
Margaret Mead
- Anonymous1 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
