Quotes About Race

'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.—[See

Everybody granted that if Tom were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life--that was quite another matter. As soon as the Governor understood the case, he pardoned Tom at once, and the creditors sold him down the river.

Si los gatos y los hombres se cruzasen, ganaría mucho la raza humana y perdería mucho la gatuna

About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. When you are going to do a miracle for an ignorant race, you want to get in every detail that will count;

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.

sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

Humanity must become united, even with all of its diversity, because humanity is one race in the Greater Community. The distinctions that you make to separate yourself from others are meaningless to your visitors, except insofar as these distinctions can be exploited. They represent your weakness, not your strength.

the Jim Crow South, often the plates off which black people had eaten were broken so that they could not be used again. Baseball great Hank Aaron describes this common practice in his autobiography, noting, "If dogs had eaten off those plates, they'd have washed them."21 So the US South had convoluted and bizarre practices regarding food: blacks could cook and serve food for whites, but they were thought to contaminate the plates they themselves used.

Humanitarian concerns are always dismissed as impractical, at least initially. Humanitarian concerns, however, aren't high on the national gay movement's list of priorities; if they were, we'd hear a lot more from them than we do about the inequities that derive from race, class, and gender.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.