Quotes About Race

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America—there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs—sick little lambs.

They were competing in the Maktig competition

Song in Space When man first flew beyond the sky He looked back into the world's blue eye. Man said: What makes your eye so blue? Earth said: The tears in the ocean do. Why are the seas so full of tears? Because I've wept so many thousand years. Why do you weep as you dance through space? Because I'm the Mother of the Human Race. Adrian Mitchell

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

In Book II, Section-104, of his celebrated History, Herodotus states :—"For my part I believe the Colchi to be a colony of Egyptians, because like them they have black skins and frizzled hair." (See any English translation of THE HISTORY of HERODOTUS.

A dog is not "almost human", and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

The Naturalization Act of 1870 expanded naturalization in the United States to "white persons and persons of African descent," but other nonwhites remained excluded.

The underlying reason why Woods might be identified as black in the first place, given his very mixed heritage, is the traditional "one-drop rule" in the United States. This rule refers to the legal (for a time) designation of people with any black ancestry—that is, a person with even a single drop of black blood—as black.

Race has traditionally referred to groups that are biologically distinguishable by physical, mental, and genetic traits.9 Indeed, this notion remains widely held among the public.

In other words, they feel part of the mainstream, and they are less likely to perceive the importance of race in other people's lives. This is what some commentators would refer to as "white privilege.

For many Americans, race is an important part of their identity. It affects how they view themselves, their aspirations, and their communities.

In other words, race is a social construction, and how groups are defined varies over time and place.

African Americans are still more likely to be poor, unemployed, and incarcerated and suffer from worse health than whites. The

While Puerto Ricans, compared to other Latino migrants, enjoy the benefit of U.S. citizenship at birth, the population is generally very racially mixed; many have some African ancestry, and darker-skinned Puerto Ricans in particular have encountered significant racial barriers.

A running theme in the book is that how we define racial and ethnic groups, along with changing patterns of identification in the U.S. population, affects our understanding of racial and ethnic inequality.

NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamednot by its residentsAfrica. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. TIGER WOODS

National media outlets such as ABC,8 CNN,9 and NBC noted that the alleged gunman told another white man: "Whites don't kill whites." It sounded as if the gunman was merely reassuring a bystander. But that bystander was a permit holder who was pointing a gun at the killer. What the killer actually said was: "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites."10 The killer was pleading with a permit holder not to shoot him.