Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old race quotes, race sayings, and race proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.Mary Mcleod Bethune
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.Alfred North Whitehead
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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.Michael Bassey Johnson
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.Auguste Comte
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.Lyndon B. Johnson
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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.Raquel Cepeda
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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.Mark Twain
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.Elie Wiesel
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
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Our true nationality is mankind.H. G. Wells
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Mahatma Gandhi
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My color is my joy and not my burden.Bebe Moore Campbell
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.James A. Baldwin
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.Orson Welles
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage, he won't encounter many rivals.George C. Lichtenberg
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.Washington Bailey
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People must help one another; it is nature's law.Jean de la Fontaine
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things.George C. Lichtenberg
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Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.Jean de la Fontaine
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race the human race and that we are all members of it.Margaret Atwood
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.Mark Twain
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.Charles Darwin