Race Quotes - Page 16

• The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

  Lord Acton

  Law, Class, Political

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Friends, Adversaries

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.445

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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Sean O Faolain

  Purple, Flames, People

  1947 The Irish.

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• Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Years, Succeed

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

  Eda LeShan

  Roots, Progress, Important

  Eda J. LeShan (1982). “Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series "Getting along".”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Humanity, Genius, May

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• What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Individual, Revelations, Humans

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• In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Successful, Temples, Niche

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• Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

  George Henry Borrow

  Silly, Use, Facts

  "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.

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• ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

  Catharine Beecher

  Civilization, History, Humanity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.37

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Acting

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• We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

  Catharine Beecher

  Sacrifice, Law, Has Beens

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.36

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Voice, Listening, Whole

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Appreciate, Today

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Class

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Cheer, Humility

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.194, Graphic Arts Books

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• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Children, Order

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• ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Valentine, Once Upon A Time

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• Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers!
  You are milk and honey and love and death and dance.
  From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks,
  Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher,
  At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground,
  Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Spring, Rocks, Milk And Honey

  "Hymn of the Pearl". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1981.

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• Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

  Edward Brooke

  People, Labels, Offensive

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• ... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Color, Shining

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.70, Indiana University Press

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• I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

  Frances Harper

  Risen

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.128, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Opportunity, Role Models, Waiting

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