Race Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

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• The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Courage, Kings, People

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• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Hero, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

  Toyin Odutola

  Thinking, Drawing, Needs

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• [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

  Harold Urey

  Intelligent, Doubt, Intelligence

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• What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Spiritual, Work Out, Giants

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• 'Good as Gone' goes from zero to 60 in under six seconds and never lets off the gas! If you like your thrillers filled with nonstop action in a race against time through Europe's underbelly, hop in and take a ride.

  Andrew Gross

  Zero, Europe, Six

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• Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

  Ed Wood

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Texas, Oregon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

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• If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

  Ann Coulter

  Player, College, People

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• the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

  Becky Freeman

  Teenage, Brain, Body

  Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

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• We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

  David Platt

  Heaven, Assuming, Warrants

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• This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

  Matthew Dowd

  Numbers, Issues, Justice

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• Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Organization, Needs

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

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• Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.

  Ed Wood

  Home, Hunting, Animal

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• In politics, people throw around the word 'friend' so much it often has little real meaning. This is not one of those times, when I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.

  Marco Rubio

  Real, Believe, Mean

  "Marco Rubio sent praising note to Jeb Bush ahead of his announcement" by Serafin Gómez, www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, No Friends, Humans

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• Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
  arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Islands, Civilization

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Guides, Ifs

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• I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Life, Weekend, Thinking

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• We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Practice, Benefits

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

  W. C. Fields

  People, Tree, Apes

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• To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

  Tony Stewart

  Dream, Winning, Car

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