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• I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Discovery, Useless

  "What I Believe" by H. L. Mencken, The Forum (American magazine), Volume 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Native American, Government, Blood

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• The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

  Ann Coulter

  Ethnicity, World, Term

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.32, Crown Forum

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Taken

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Law, Doubt, Mind

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• Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

  Colin McRae

  Car, Racing, Driving

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• I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race... After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Dark, Men

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• Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Men, White Man, Light

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• I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

  Ben Stein

  Ideas, Racism, Murder

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• The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government. I am saying that the LEADERS of the Jewish race wish to involve us in the war for reasons that are NOT AMERICAN.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, War, Lying

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• It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Men, Talking

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• No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

  Argus Hamilton

  Looks, Wonder, Testing

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• Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

  Hugo Chavez

  Empires, Humans, Human Race

  Hugo Chavez's remarks duting the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran, July 30, 2006.

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• I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  White, Racism, Backgrounds

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mirrors, Idols

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Persistence, Endurance

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 29, 2014

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• "Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Rights, Confusing

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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• Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

  Mark Twain

  Philosophy, Men, Details

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Evil, Made

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• When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.

  James Fox

  Yards, Levels, Lessons

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• Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me,
  Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest,
  Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed,
  By cursed Cain's race invented be,
  And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

  John Donne

  Art, Science, Plowing

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

  Terence McKenna

  Fire, Drug, Way

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• The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Believe, Remarkable

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• If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

  Alva Myrdal

  Police, Insane, Realizing

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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