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Quotes About Race

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
~ Unknown
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race
~ Robert Frost
Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
~ Dick Gregory
Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.
~ Amanda Beard
I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.
~ Jimmie Johnson
Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
~ Gerry Lindgren
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.
~ Dov Davidoff
The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.
~ George W. Bush
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
~ Alexander Pope
I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.
~ Philip Roth
When Lindbergh wrote proudly of "our inheritance of European blood," when he warned against "dilution by foreign races" and "the infiltration of inferior blood" (all phrases that turn up in diary entries from those years), he was recording personal convictions shared by a sizable portion of America First's rank-and-file membership as well
~ Philip Roth
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.
~ Philip Yancey
Jesus extended the privileges of God's chosen family to the whole world, regardless of race or nation. Thus an obscure Jewish sect became a new global faith, Christianity, open to all.
~ Philip Yancey
America's attention had turned to race relations during that winter of 1954-55, largely driven by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the nation's public schools would eventually have to be racially integrated. Crispus Attucks students were studying black history without being fully aware that their basketball team was making it.
~ Unknown
Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Kötülük ölümden daha h?zl? koÅŸar.
~ Platon
Cronos, then lord of the world, knew that no mortal nature could endure the temptations of power, and therefore he appointed demons or demi-gods, who are of a superior race, to have dominion over man, as man has dominion over the animals
~ Plato
Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race. It is potential, not actual, and can only be appropriated by strenuous exertion.
~ Plato
Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.
~ Priscilla Shirer