Johnny Mathis 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.

The world is white no longer, and it will never be again.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

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

Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color.

We have torn down the barriers in our laws. Now we must break down the barriers in our lives, our minds and our hearts …

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.

Most voters—most Republicans—are too young to imagine a world before integration and have no longing to see one.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

… our little brown brothers.