Race Quotes - Page 9

• I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Work Out, Goal

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• I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

  Jim Brown

  Needs, Actors, Theory

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• Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

  Horace

  Conceited, Self

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• I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  Believe, Thinking, Microsoft

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• Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Women, World, Christianity

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.71

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• Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
  Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

  Alexander Pope

  Sleep, Two, Pace

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.346, Lulu.com

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• Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
  To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Heaven, Peculiar

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Roles, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

  Kanye West

  Class, People, Enemy

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• I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Space, Long

  "'Colonize planets to save the human race' – Professor Stephen Hawking", www.rt.com. February 20, 2015.

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• When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

  Joseph R. Bartlett

  Christian, Pagan, Contact

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• In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, America

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• I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

  Stephen Mangan

  Couple, Done, Marathon

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Mad, Genius, Humans

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.219, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.

  H. A. Guerber

  Men, Land, Paradise

  H. A. Guerber (1910). “Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages”

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• Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

  Puff Daddy

  Religious, Powerful, Communication

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• Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Thinking, People

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• The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

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• The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hair, Blood, History

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2012). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

  Max Muller

  Order, Perfect, Greek

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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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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• The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.

  John of Damascus

  Mother, Religious, Joy

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• I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

  Katori Hall

  Writing

  "Art Talk with Playwright Katori Hall". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. May 28, 2015.

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• I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

  Manny Farber

  Thinking, Giving, Car

  Interview with Richard Thompson, www.screeningthepast.com. 1977.

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• The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Long, Stories

  Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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