Quotes About Race

He must have been insane, he thought, not to be overcome in spirit. But he was not. He felt loss of something, some kind of sensation he ought to have had. But he rode that race keener and better than any race he had ever before ridden.

Read the Bible. There'd been whites held as slaves for several thousand years before the blacks were enslaved.

Stanley was thankful that there were no racial problems. X-Ray, Armpit, and Zero were black. He, Squid, and Zigzag were white. Magnet was Hispanic. On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt.

That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

He favored vocational training for blacks, not intellectual equality with whites.

The colored race is not ready it seems to me for high culture.

Two people competed for the position—

if a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a white man, he is punished with the loss of his hand and, if he should draw blood, with death.

He will willingly fill the more menial positions, and do the heavy work, at less wages, than the American white man

tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race

Our opponents have sometimes tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race when we denounced the financial policy of the Rothschilds.

the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. "Successive generations of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, made the killing of Indian men, women, and children a defining element of their first military tradition and thereby part of a shared American identity.

Whitman explicitly grounded this prescription in racism: "The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated; it is the law of the races, history.… A superior grade of rats come and then all the minor rats are cleared out." The whole world would benefit from US expansion: "We pant to see our country and its rule far-reaching. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico … to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Several of them set the Ariel a pace, but all but two of them soon fell behind. One of these, a full type Curtiss, held a fair follow-up at a distance.

The characteristics of race, people, nation and sex are the subject matter of special branches of study. Only people who wish to live as nothing more than examples of the genus could possibly conform to a general picture such as arises from academic study of this kind.

Father took race to be the central and inescapable fact of American life and character, and thus he did not apologize for its being the central fact of his own life and character.

tall gray-faced black woman in her thirties

Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called colored, let all be colored.

let's all be reminded that no matter what our age, we're all growing older! We're racing toward those later years and the finish line that follows — so why not learn to run that race with grace and joy?

Being half, I am evidence that race, too, will become relic. Eventually we're all going to be brown, sort of. Some days, when I'm reeling grand, I feel brand-new - like a prototype. Back in the olden days, my dad's ancestors got stuck behind the Alps and my mom's on the east side of the Urals. Now, oddly, I straddle this blessed, ever-shrinking world.

Guns, race, meat, and Manifest Destiny all collided in a single explosion of violent, dehumanized activity.

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

It did not occur to any of them that their decision was born of a colossal sense of entitlement, this notion that they could just step away from yesterday and start tomorrow as if it wasn't a part of the same week, to move beyond memory and roots and language and race into the land of the self-made self, which is another way of saying, America.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.