Quotes about Race
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- Malcolm X
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
- Hillary Clinton
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
- AW Tozer
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
- Frederick Douglass
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
- Walt Whitman
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
- Will Rogers
This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.
- David Livingstone
Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.
- David Livingstone Smith
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
- Nikki Giovanni
Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.
- Tony Campolo
God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
- Mahatma Gandhi