Race Quotes - Page 12

• The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

  Thylias Moss

  African American, Looks, Layers

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• Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

  June Goodfield

  Patents, Example, Rats

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• The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Heart, Compassion, Long

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• Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Real, Teaching, Patriotic

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• And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.

  Steve Hagen

  Lakes, Land, Rivers

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.106, Tuttle Publishing

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• I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

  A. D. Patel

  Country, Believe, People

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• Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

  Laurence Stallings

  Boys, Equality, Color

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Iran

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

  Barack Obama

  War, Iran, Risk

  Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

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• We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Struggle, Things In Life, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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

  Two, Different, Might

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Jobs, Men, White Man

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Growing Up, Father, Love You

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Lying, Eye, Hair

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Horse, Animal

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  KRS-One

  Mean, White, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

  KRS-One

  Hypocrisy, Hip Hop, Acting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.

  A. D. Patel

  Thinking, Practice, Water

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• No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  People, Climate, Earth

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Sex, Believe, Mean

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• Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Destiny, Ideas, People

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• The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

  Timothy Keller

  Book, Needs, Humans

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• Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Pride, Reality

  "Talks with Mussolini". Book by Emil Ludwig, 1932.

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