Quotes About Race

On July 26, 1948, Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces: It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the time required to effectuate any necessary changes without impairing efficiency or morale.

Within our own races we distinguish between the natural" and "unnatural" people. But what if none of that really makes a difference? What if we are just black, white, Chinese, African, Native American; what if we're just all here to experience the consequences of our choices and judgements; and what if all this is put in front of us so that we can just all grow as individuals?... You were born by yourself and, when you go to the next level, you're gonna go by yourself. [—Erykah Badu]

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

Successful people are so focused on their own goals that they don't have time to look around to see what everybody else is doing." Run your race, and when somebody passes you by, don't be intimidated. Be inspired. If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

He gave you the talent you need, the creativity, the strength. You're the right size, and you have the right looks, the right personality, and the right family. You didn't get shortchanged. You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.

If you will stay free from a spirit of competition and just run your race, you'll not only enjoy your life more, but you'll also see your gifts and talents come out to the full. Because when you celebrate others, God will celebrate you.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

He had been told, he said, of "colored students at the University of Minn[esota] partying with female students (white) and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

The 1993 National Household Survey10 on Drug Abuse found that 19 percent of drug dealers were African American, but they made up 64 percent of the arrests for it.

The main reason given for banning drugs—the reason obsessing the men who launched this war—was that the blacks, Mexicans, and Chinese were using these chemicals, forgetting their place, and menacing white people.

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Life is a race; desire the goal.