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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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• [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Practice, Giving, Parent

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• I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

  Marcel Hirscher

  Believe, Winning, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Political, Progress, Essentials

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• Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

  Pete Wentz

  Motivational, Mean, Odds

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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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• Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

  Maria W. Stewart

  God, Freedom, Equality

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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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• 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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• 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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• Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.

  Charles Seymour Robinson

  Christian, Jesus, Sleep

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 64, 1895.

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• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Light, Heaven

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• I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Weather, Gold, Climate

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• I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Dream, Taken, Writing

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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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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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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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• 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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• Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

  Sandeep Kumar

  Motivational, Hard Work, Luck

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• In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

  Florence King

  America, Sight, Years

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