Quotes About Race

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh -- not a trace of rage on behalf of black people, not a trace of rage on behalf of me.

It became a requirement of those in hazardous professions, or those with highly desirable dominant characteristics of intelligence or physical perfection, to donate sperm and ova to what became known as the Race Conservation Agency.