Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
Skin Color quotes
Skin Color
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J. C. Watts
Politician
"I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color."
Alveda King
Activist
"Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color."
Malala Yousafzai
Activist, Author
"There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone."
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"My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color."
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"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled."
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"One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color."
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"I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism."
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"This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color."
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"When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist."
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