Joe Thomas Quotes

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Race has no place in American life or law.

Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

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.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Negro members shall be treated as white members

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.

The price of the liberation of the whites is the liberation of the Blacks.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race.... And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently..

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.