Quotes About Race

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and it's all white, those kids have to work to stand out, not you.'