Quotes about race
race political gender
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. John Podhoretz
race years wicked
Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God. Martin Luther
race honor important
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
race energy habit
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor. Marilyn French
race years attention
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. Ray Charles
race perfect trying
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it. Sinclair Lewis
race religion crowds
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available. Rajneesh
race doe honda
If Honda does not race, there is no Honda. Soichiro Honda
race dying answers
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. Mercedes Lackey
race sin cowardice
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. Theodore Roosevelt
race dear-god dear-life
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. Theodor Reik
race revolution disaster
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Theodore Kaczynski
race evil faces
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears. Theodore Dreiser
race farming british
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. Thein Sein
race trouble window
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. Thelma Ritter
race
I never though much about race. Thelonious Monk
race break-through understanding
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. Terry Riley
race eugenics birth-control
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. Margaret Sanger
race soldier menace
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
race emphasis wrong-things
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things. Margaret Mitchell
race definitions rats
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. Margaret Halsey
race racism people
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.
race racism long
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
race self helping
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. Marcus Garvey
race organization america
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.
race accomplish
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
race people helping
I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.
race people long
Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.
race paper
You don’t drive races on paper. Kimi Raikkonen
race today hideous
It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today. Michael Kors
race color racism
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were Black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. Michelle Alexander
race order law
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.
race jim-crow-laws slavery
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.