Race Quotes - Page 17

• I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Deep Affection, Views, Roots

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• Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Black, Littles

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• The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

  Keith Teare

  Smartphones, Needs, Social

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• Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Regulation, Common

  "King v. The College of Physicians". 1797.

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• An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Wise, Talking, Civilization

  Eknath Easwaran (2012). “Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down”, p.54, Nilgiri Press

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• When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Principles, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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• In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Differences, Long

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.233, Diversion Books

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• Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Earning It, Sweat

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.104, Read Books Ltd

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• A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, White Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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• I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

  Oleg Cassini

  Horse, My Own

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• Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

  Wallis Simpson

  Pain, Loss, Long

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Stupid, Pseudo

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Rich Or Poor, Law

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• The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Discovery, Incredibles, Tradition

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, Quest Books

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• There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

  Ida Tarbell

  Running, Business, Men

  "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Book by Ida Tarbell (originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's Magazine), 1904.

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• Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Country, Men, Rose

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”

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• The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Chinese, Materialistic, Easy

  "The Malay Dilemma". Book by Mahathir Mohamad, 1970.

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• Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

  R. K. Milholland

  Winning, Glasses, Waste

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• I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

  William Hurlbut

  Life, Jealous, Power

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• Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

  Colin Powell

  Groups, Sake, Constitution

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
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  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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• To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

  Jan Smuts

  Bible, Vision, Stories

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• There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed.... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Heart, Pigs

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• The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Strong, Men, Negative

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