Quotes About Race

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

I'm going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys ' but women accept being called 'girls.'

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

The crisis created by an inability to distinguish the Bible on race from the Bible on slavery meant that when the Civil War was over and slavery was abolished, systemic racism continued unchecked as the great moral anomaly in a supposedly Christian America.

The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men.

Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of species before they become extinct, it's like someone hurrying through a burning library desperately trying to jot down some of the tittles of books that will now never be read.

The reptilian race, or Lizzies as we affectionately call them, are an integral part of your ancestral line. . . . Understand that the reptilian energies are creator gods. They are master geneticists

The victims of highway building tended to be overwhelmingly poor and black.