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As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

— Rosa Parks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

— Ben Carson

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

— Ed Smith

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

— Mike Gallagher

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

— Eminem

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

— Bert Williams

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

— Sarah Jones

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

— Chris Froome

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

— Ilyasah Shabazz

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

— Billy Eckstine