Race Quotes - Page 22

• When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

  Wes Anderson

  Sun, Action, Ends

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• Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.

  Dean Spade

  Law, White, Reform

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Tired, Kids, Littles

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• The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Mixtures, Navigation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.22

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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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• If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Crush, Sports, Running

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Organization, Issues

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.

  Scott Clifton

  Needs, Opinion, Over It

  "Answers 3 of 5". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. November 6, 2007.

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• They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Science, Destiny, Thinking

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Men, People, Ignorant

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• Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Teaching, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

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• Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Dystopian Fiction, Literature, Facts

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• one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Racism, Dominance

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• Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Believe, Animal, Opinion

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• That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Simple, People, Elements

  Source: jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com

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• ... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Real, Hero, Circles

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• Race ain't nothing but a number.

  Carson Cistulli

  Numbers

  "Selected Aphorisms #78". The New Enthusiast, thenewenthusiast.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

  Alice Walker

  Past, Talking, Leader

  "Obama is the change that America has tried to hide" by Alice Walker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2008.

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• We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.

  Andrei Grechko

  War, Trying, World

  "The Role of Nuclear Forces in Current Soviet Strategy". Book by Leon Gouré, p. 53, 1974.

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• The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

  Kylie Tennant

  Religious, Responsibility, Civilization

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Political, Prejudice, Finals

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• I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  World, Skis

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Dream, Children, Men

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.52, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

  Cyra McFadden

  Thinking, Would Be, World

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• As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Long, Hungry, Humans

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