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I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

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Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

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Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Race Quotes , Two Quotes

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

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First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

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But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Race Quotes , Numbers Quotes

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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