Class Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

— John Fowles

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

— Albert Einstein

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

— R. H. Tawney

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous…

— Arthur Keith

“I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason…

— Franz Boas

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

— Socrates

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of…

— Edward Abbey

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts…

— Angelina Grimke

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

— Bertrand Russell

“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be…

— Leo Tolstoy