Quotes About Society

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating - is this the exact right mix? I think that's - to me it's anti-comedy. It's more about PC-nonsense.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.

How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today.

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

We will eliminate the drug racket from Punjab.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.