Different Races Quotes - Page 3

• children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Children, Race, People

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• People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

  Clint Eastwood

  Race, People, Different

  "Cannes film festival honours Clint Eastwood" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2009.

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• Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

  Lester Maddox

  Race, Government, Different

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• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  Karl Marlantes

  Military, War, Race

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• With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

  Stefan Zweig

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Men

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• We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Race, Two, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Unity, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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• Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Unity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.

  Pearl Tan

  Thinking, Race, Racism

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

  Roger Ebert

  Race, Class, Shoes

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• It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

  Gore Vidal

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Gore Vidal (1992). “Screening history”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

  Jesse Helms

  Race, Two, Differences

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• America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, Race, Civilization

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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