Skin Colour Quotes

“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Racism is one of the most common results of the combination of stupidity and the ability to see.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change your daily thoughts, they can influence your habits! Beware of evil companions!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Racism is a mental disorder, and should have been classified as such ages ago.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It’s simple!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“To see the absurdity of racism, some people first had to be blind.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Flowers differ in color, just as humans do.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts