"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Race, States, United

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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

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

Social Class

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

Time

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

Family

"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

Racism

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

Thought

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

Sexuality

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

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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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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

"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!"