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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o...

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He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had ma...

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E. M. ForsterA Passage to India

But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" T...

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P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of ...

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Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes

p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same p...

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Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only r...

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I like to race, not to do laps alone.

To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I wil...

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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

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Franz RosenzweigFranz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drive...

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Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try,...

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Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who...

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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the ...

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The Jews could be put down very plausible as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly enc...

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

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In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before ...

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...

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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It'...

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James McBride (writer)The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People giv...

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Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your par...

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True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

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Jodi PicoultSmall Great Things

What if, ladies and gentlemen, today I told you that anyone here who was born on a Monday, Tuesday, ...

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Skin color doesn't make you different," Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only peo...

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Jodi PicoultThe Color War

Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only p...

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...

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...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be close...

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Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritio...

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Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

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What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the rac...

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He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped shar...

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Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the Narcissus

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o...

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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

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I’m not that kind of Indian,” Shanti said, her practiced smile never leaving her face, though it fal...

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Libba BrayBeauty Queens

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

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I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was ...

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This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedo...

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Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm,...

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I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that sa...

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It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

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You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward...

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May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...

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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess t...

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Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns...

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I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or ...

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Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or...

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Michael ShermerWhy People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience

The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in...

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What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to t...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...

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Nadine GordimerThe Quotable Gordimer; or

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewi...

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What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so blac...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought aga...

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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

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There is nothing like race, is there?

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between ma...

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Otto WeiningerSex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

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I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled str...

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This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

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The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

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I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more fir...

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Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own i...

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The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes al...

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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 be...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

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The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

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Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other...

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One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.