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Quotes About Race

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first place. Don't prey on the weak. Don't steal from the helpless. Don't murder the innocent. Be a force for good, not a force for yourself.
~ Dan Abnett
Cats can run fast,
~ Unknown
As an aside: I urge you to count the non-white faces in that Halloween photo and consider the claim about "daring to be different.")
~ Unknown
10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom. Atomic Habits
~ Unknown
10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom.
~ Unknown
Some don't like to see this (vaccination rollout) as a race but a race it surely is. What I didn't know was that [NSW] Premier [Gladys] Berejiklian's in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some sort of egg and spoon thing.
~ Unknown
largest city, the federal military authorities stationed in Memphis sat on their hands. By the massacre's end, at least forty-eight African-American men, women, and children were dead and five black women raped; only two whites died. To Northerners reading the news from Tennessee, the riot made plain Johnson's complicity in the white South enforcing its own race-based mob rule.
~ Unknown
A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
~ Anthony Braxton
'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer.
~ Bill Cosby
It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.
~ Kylie Bunbury
As long as white newspapers were unwilling or unable to attack 'anti-Negro' forces or to air the views of black reformers, there was a service black newspapers could provide.
~ Darryl Pinckney
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
~ Kerry Washington
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
~ Abraham Cahan
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.
~ Roxane Gay
While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.
~ Denis Napthine
They'll touch you and look at your skin to see if it's paint. I'm not playing. All Russia is not like that. You've got your big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg. Some cities understand that there are black people. They do exist. But the smaller cities, the little villages, they've never seen it.
~ Gerald Green
My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?
~ Andre Ward
Martha's Vineyard is a very strange place, racially speaking. Or maybe it's the way things could be if everyone had a bit more money and job security and status and could meet on equal enough footing.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.
~ Derrick Grayson
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
~ John Edgar Wideman
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
~ Juan Williams
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
~ Juan Williams