Quotes About Race

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

Their Ethiop wives—sleek wineskins of black silk, Jellied and huge from drinking asses' milk Through years of tropical idleness, to pray For offspring (whom he ever sent away With prayers unanswered, lest their ebon race Might breed and blacken the earth's comely face).

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

Mingo went toward his cabin, but turning at the door, he looked back at George. "Hear me, boy! You thinks you's sump'n special wid massa, but nothin' don't make no difference to mad, scared white folks! Don't you be no fool an' slip off nowhere till this blow over, you hear me? I mean don't!

He said he wanted to present an alternative; that it might be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X).

I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.

although he knew very little about American history, or pop culture, he'd fundamentally understood the place, cut to its original wound. "A bit racialist, aren't they?" he'd observed.

I would not like to hear from any of you that you can't find qualified blacks. I have spent my life trying to find qualified whites and some of you don't qualitfy yet.

Back in his seat, he said, -Did I tell you not to stay in the sun?- He narrowed his eyes. -You are black as a negra.-

The American system for building wealth has always taken wealth away from black Americans and given it to white American - beginning when enslaved blacks were stripped of their humanity and counted as the property that became the white wealth that still benefits white Americans and corporations today.

1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.8 Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less.

A system designed to build white wealth will ultimately not work to build black wealth.

Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural—and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.

scientists are using advanced genomic theories and technologies to create a new racial science that claims to divide the human species into natural groups without the taint of racism.

Attributing blacks' poor health to inherent racial difference allowed whites like Jefferson both to ignore how disease is caused by political inequality and to justify an unequal system by pointing to the inherent racial difference that disease supposedly reveals.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

A hare so dominant that it actively helped the tortoise catch up, not knowing the tortoise would repay this kindness by kneecapping the hare and bursting into the lead.

When I have White, I win because I am white. When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

In all honesty, the difficulties with their house were mild, and most resolved. The problem seems to be with work that was not finished properly, something a tribute to pull in park to the race to build houses as fast as possible throughout Celebration.