Race Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Opinion, Influence, Temperament

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.17

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• [During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Father, Europe, History

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Pride, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3409, Delphi Classics

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

  Edward Brooke

  People, Labels, Offensive

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• I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Savages

  "Locksley Hall" l. 168 (1842)

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• Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Compliments You, Long, Advice

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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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.
  . . . .
  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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• In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blood, Agony, Water

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Sermons on the Blood and Cross of Christ”

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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Genius, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.775, Modern Library

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• Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

  Barbara Mertz

  History, Half, Humans

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• Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

  Del Shannon

  People, Existence, Humans

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