Quotes about Race

the solution to America's race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external. It is inward, not outward; personal, not social; individual, not political.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

Let us beware of the mistakes that C. S. Lewis described in Screwtape Letters. He says, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence, the other is to believe and to feel an unhealthy interest in them! They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and they hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

Jesus extended the privileges of God's chosen family to the whole world, regardless of race or nation. Thus an obscure Jewish sect became a new global faith, Christianity, open to all.

Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.

I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the other. When members of every family are one of those others, such hatreds will become, finally, impossible.