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Race Quotes
"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."
Race,
19
"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
Race,
19
"In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year."
Race,
17
"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."
17
"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
16
"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
Race,
16
"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
Race,
15
"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."
Race,
14
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
12
"I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter."
Race,
12
"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically."
Race,
12
"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."
11
"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
11
"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
11
"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
6
"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!"
5
"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
5
"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."
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