"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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"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

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"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

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"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

Mark Spitz, American Athlete

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"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."

Hank Aaron, American Athlete

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"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

Catharine Beecher, American Educator

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"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."

Dick Morris, American Author

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"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Race, Truth, Science, Wisdom, Power

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

Lynn Barber, British Journalist

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"I never though much about race."

Thelonious Monk, American Musician

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

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

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"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."

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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

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

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"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."

"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."