Race Quotes
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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
H. G. Wells -
Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
Halsey
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Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
Sam Yagan -
Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.
Ed Rollins -
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.
W. J. T. Mitchell -
Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.
Major Taylor -
Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
Larry Dixon
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
K. Eric Drexler -
My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.
William S. Hart -
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar Wilde -
Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.
Conan O'Brien -
Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
Carl Forti -
I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
Otto Frank
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The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
Albert J. Beveridge -
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
Andrea Mitchell -
Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg -
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
E. V. Lucas -
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
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
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The USSSA has ruled that even if we hold a trail run, it will be accepted as a regional qualifier for the national snowshoe race to be held in Vermont this spring.
Wendell Johnson -
I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
Iman -
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
Umberto Eco -
When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.
Dan Hill