Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration, and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression.

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for the minimum of reason.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

Diversity might be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, provided they have satisfactorily filled out forms 3584-A through 3597-Q.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.