America Quote by Elliott Sober

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring…

— Duke Ellington

“A psychologist has noted the “garbage in/garbage out” circularity of “elegant experimental designs and statistical analyses applied to biologically meaningless racial categories.”20”

— Barbara J. Fields

The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of…

— Julian Huxley

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

— Daniel Kaluuya

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

— Dorothy Allison

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to…

— Rachel Dolezal

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not necessarily derogatory:…

— Paolo Aluffi