B. Rush Plumly Quotes

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

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 together at the table of brotherhood.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

The demon of racialism, the aberrations of the Xhosa—Fingo feud, the animosity that exists between the Zulus and the Tongas, between the Basuto and every other Native must be buried, and forgotten. We are one people.

The moment we invite to our table men of another race ... we affirm that we acknowledge them as our fellow countrymen as they acknowledge we are theirs.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other

I hope to meet you all in Heaven—Black and white.

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

My message is all about peace.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.