Race Quotes

4377 Race quotes by 2577 unique authors

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. — Albert Einstein
I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the… — Harry S. Truman
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… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Abraham Lincoln
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. — Immanuel Kant
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of… — H. L. Mencken
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? — Joseph Brodsky
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder… — Jean Genet
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near… — Mary McCarthy
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice… — Eugene Ionesco
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on… — John Shelby Spong
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the… — George Henry Borrow
Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a… — Michael Josephson
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my… — Leo Baekeland
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all… — Sandra Bullock
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race,… — Carrie Chapman Catt
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin. — Margaret Mead
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex.… — Billy Connolly
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is… — Gloria Steinem
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever… — Wilma Scott Heide
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between… — Peter Singer
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.… — Peter Singer

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