Quotes About Race

If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

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

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.

All strong characters and peoples are race conscious and are instinctively averse to marriage outside their own racial group.

No es la raza la que crea la civilización, es la civilización la que crea el pueblo: las circunstancias geográficas, económicas y políticas crean una cultura, y la cultura crea un tipo humano.

I thought about the times we'd had in his small garret above Greville's darkroom. And I didn't feel anything. It's strange how strong emotions can be so easily diminished as your life continues; how deepest intimacies become commonplace half-recalled memories-- such as an exotic holiday you once went on, or a cocktail party where you drank far too much, or winning a race at the school sports day. Nothing stirs anymore.

he recognized slavery as a vital element of social morale, for even the lowliest white still could stand with pride knowing that he was the superior of a black. Slavery gave poor whites a social status nowhere else enjoyed by the peasantry, and as proof he argued that some of the most ardent supporters of slavery were whites too poor themselves to own slaves.

For two thousand years Jerusalem has brought out the least attractive qualities in every race that has lived there. The Holy City has had more atrocities committed in it, more consistently, than any other town in the world. Sacred to three religions, the city has witnessed the worst intolerance and self-righteousness of all of them.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.