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"349 Race Quotes

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

African African American American Class
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Age Busy Learn Left
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Creature Himself Impossible Man
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Body Consider Human Human Body
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I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

Dark Race Sick
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anybody Failure Interested Man
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Another Details Died Distinguish
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Anything Battle Countenance Individual
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Behavior Believes Does Feels
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Because Beings Better Dogs
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Colour Hair How Long
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I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.
Because Being Following Human
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Brainy Depressive Fry Know
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Being Bigger Eye Human
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I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Actually Arrow Being Decent
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Animals Another Barter Common
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Accept Black Definitions Man
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Almost Almost All Conscious Country
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Slavery Abolished Thinking
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Swim Damn Scuba Dive
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Human HumanRace Knock Never
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
Big Big Responsibility Bring Doctors
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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History proves that the white man is a devil.

History Proves That The
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Nas
Africa Been Going Has Been
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

After Been Black Cannot
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Beginning Cultivating Men Men And Women
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Advances Degraded Humanity More
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism Threat Gravest Hatred
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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Jew Decays Integrity Knowledge
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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Short is the way from need to greed.

Greed Short Need
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What seems to be a stone is a drama.
Stone Drama Seems
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It irritates me how most of the world fights against racism until it's against black people...and we let them.

Irritates World Fights Racism
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Born Death Face Live
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Affected Attention Attention Span Brain
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The less I talk about being black, the better.

About Being Better Black
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Poor Man Hard Race
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Problem Century Color
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No matter where I am or what I do, I am proudly AFRICAN

No matter Where Proudly African
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
PEOPLE College Teachers Ministers
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
PEOPLE College Teachers Ministers
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American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

American Hate Scarce
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We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

Need Recognize Racism
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