Quotes about race
race color visions-of-the-future
I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter. Desmond Tutu
race people existence
Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race. Del Shannon
race giving people
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. Amartya Sen
race judging people
We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on. Angelina Jolie
race hands law
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. Andrew Carnegie
race evil energy
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
race brotherhood mind
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood. Amos Bronson Alcott
race energy patient
I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy. Allyson Felix
race strange affair
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow. Anthony Daniels
race police insane
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. Alva Myrdal
race
A race cannot be purified from without. Anna Julia Cooper
race black special
Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'
race disrespect taught
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. Anna Deavere Smith
race vocabulary people
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
race justice prejudice
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. Anita Hill
race dust civilization
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. D. H. Lawrence
race decision made
I have never made a decision based on race and never will. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
race usa united-states
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. Constance Baker Motley
race track people
When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track. Clint Bowyer
race people different
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races. Clint Eastwood
race ancestry thieves
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. Daniel Defoe
race funny-simpsons easy
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. Dan Castellaneta
race heaven assuming
We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise. David Platt
race color class
We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color. Ameen Rihani
race wife cain
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy. Ambrose Bierce
race america black
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself. Alicia Keys
race punishment justice
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. Albert Bushnell Hart
race heaven cost
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. Albert Camus
race growth earth
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved. Annie Besant
race humanity chords
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
race egypt ethnicity
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. Allyson Schwartz
race pace chance
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race Robert Frost
race ants curious
Ants are a curious race