Race Quotes

4377 Race quotes by 2577 unique authors

Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The… — William Wells Brown
Race prejudice is the devil unchained. — Charles W. Chesnutt
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… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that… — Lani Guinier
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats. — Elizabeth Janeway
I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but… — Unknown Author
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows… — Beryl Markham
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from… — Kelly Miller
Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison… — Kelly Miller
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is… — Beah Richards
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the… — Carlos P. Romulo
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they… — Gertrude Stein
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He… — Rebecca West
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading… — Septima Poinsette Clark
I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace… — Cordell Hull
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race. — Alain Prost
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. — Roger Dawson
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey

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