Race Quotes

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  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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Equality, People, Humanity

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• I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

  Romain Grosjean

  Cities, Racing, Middle

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• People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

  Mat Johnson

  Real, People, Tribes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Former New York Governor George Pataki may enter the race for president. It's not definite, but he tweeted that he'll announce his 2016 plans on May 28 in New Hampshire. Well, what's he gonna do, go to New Hampshire to say he's NOT running? That's like getting down on one knee and saying, 'I think it's time to see other people.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, New York, Thinking

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Self, Defeat

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, White, People

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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  I believe there is only one race - the human race.

  Rosa Parks

  Believe, Humans, I Believe

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• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  H. G. Wells

  Education, Appreciation, Witty

  Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

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• People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Lynching, Racism, People

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• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Earth, Praying, Elsewhere

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• If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

  George Aiken

  Morning, Color, Prejudice

  "Personal Quotes/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Color

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, White, America

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

  Bertrand Russell

  Equality, Thinking, Justice

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• Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

  Roger Ebert

  Children, School, Ideas

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• The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  War, Differences, History

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

  Franz Boas

  Justice, Diversity, Special

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.20, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Religious, Racism

  "Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?". Parade Magazine, www.thehypertexts.com. May 24, 1992.

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• When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

  Alain Prost

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, White, America

  Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963

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• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

  John Trudell

  Native American, People, Being Human

  "Reel Injun". Documentary, Western, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Future, Character

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• If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

  Adolf Hitler

  Death, Crazy, War

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