"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."

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"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

"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

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"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

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"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

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

Murray Walker, English Entertainer

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"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

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"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."

Charles Hamilton Houston, American Lawyer

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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."

Happiness

"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."

Friendship

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

Happiness

"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."

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"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

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"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."

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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

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"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!"

"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."

"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."

Explore more quotes by William E. Gladstone

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."

"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

"It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes."

"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."

"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

"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!"