"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."

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"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."

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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Race, Will

"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Race, Curiosity, Judgment, Bias

"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Race, Justice, War, Society

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was white. Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

Stephen King, American Author

Race, Identity, Truth, Power, Happiness

"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

David Letterman, American Comedian

Race, Will

"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Race, Waiting

"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

Wendell Willkie, American Lawyer

Race, states, United, World

"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

Artur Davis, American Politician

Race, Vocabulary, Words

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

Amanda Beard, American Athlete

Race,

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."

Murray Walker, English Entertainer

Race,

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"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

History

"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."

People

"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."

Man

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."

Thought

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."

Control

"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."

Money

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."

Leadership

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."

Talent

"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."

Being

"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."

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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."

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"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."

"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."

"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."

"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."

"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was white. Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"