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Race Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty…
- There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races…
- I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in…
- I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality…
- My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save…
- ...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore…
- I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful…
- This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -…
- I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black…
- I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could…
More Race Quotes
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to… — Donovan Bailey
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! — Robert Ballard