T Quotes
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“The race is not always to the fairest. Sometimes it depends on where you live and the depth of the pockets.”
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.”
“The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.”
“The race may or may not be to the swift,
but tell me, is it likely
that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“The race needs workers, not leaders.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.”
“The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.”
“The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.”
Source: MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”
“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.”
Source: Collected Works
“The race of the guardians must be kept pure.”
“The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.”
“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.”
Source: The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.”
Source: The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question
“The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”
“The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.”
“The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants”
“The race to win turns us all into losers.”
Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
“The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.”
“The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.”
“The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.”
“The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates”
“The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the second kids, the abused ones, so they still hate Dad. Latinos are the third, caught in the middle and always trying to make peace between the other siblings. Asians are the youngest, and get good marks in school, but basically are just trying to keep their heads down and not get involved. And Native Americans are the old uncle who owns a house and everyone else in the family was like, "He's not using that! Let's move in!”
Source: The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
“The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.”
“The racial conflict and self-segregation described [...] are not what we would expect if widespread assumptions about the advantages of diversity are true. The prevailing view in the media and some parts of academia is that race is not even a legitimate biological category, and that it is only because of prejudiced conditioning that we even notice it.
This view ignores the large body of scientific work that suggests racial and ethnic consciousness is deeply rooted in human psychology. Our species seems to have an instinct for determining who is in our group and who is not. Studies of individuals point to unconscious processes in the brain that reflect a suspicion of people unlike ourselves, leading some researchers to conclude that ethnocentrism is part of human nature.
At the same time, studies at the group level show that ethnic conflict is universal. In all countries, diversity of religion, ethnicity, or race causes conflict. For the better part of the post-war period, sociologists and political scientists downplayed ethnic conflict, on the assumption that it was a pre modern relic that would be replaced by competition based on class or professional affiliation. This has not happened. As one researcher has concluded, “ethnicity based on common descent tends to be more important than class based on common interest. Blood runs thicker than money.”
It is from two directions, therefore, that scientists have begun to question the view that ethnic or racial mixing can be easily achieved. Laboratory investigations of individuals have found what may be tribal or ethnocentric instincts, while analysis of societies suggests that diversity invariably brings conflict.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.”
“The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.”
“The racial template which got placed over ethnic conflict in Detroit and other industrial cities of the North would obscure the real dynamics of the struggle, which was ethnic and religious rather than racial. Black in-migrants, as a result, were thrown into direct competition, not with the WASP elite which was orchestrating events, but rather the ethnics — specifically the Poles and to a lesser extent, the Italians — who lived in the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to the black ghettoes that were now filled to the bursting point with people hoping to benefit from the new employment opportunities the war economy provided. This led to some tragic misunderstandings, as blacks possessing their own nativist prejudices started accusing Poles of racism. The Poles who had been born in Europe were generally oblivious to racial concerns. Their children, the Poles who had been born in America, thought that the adoption of racial attitudes was part of the Americanization process. Poles in general wanted to know why they were being singled out as responsible for a situation which antedated their arrival in this country by hundreds of years, and blacks, facing Poles in direct competition for jobs and housing, wanted to know why “too many blacks had been fired to make jobs for other racial groups, some of whom can hardly speak our language and owe no allegiance to our flag.”
Source: The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing
“The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that black men would still pay the ultimate price.”
Source: Just Mercy
“The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.”
“The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.”
Source: Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving
“The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.”
“The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.”
“The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.”
“The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.”
“The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.”
“The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant.”
“The racism, misogyny, and counter-rationality of the reactionary right in American politics for the last several years is a frightening exhibition of the destructive force of anger deliberately nourished by hate, encouraged to rule thought, invited to control behavior. I hope our republic survives this orgy of self-indulgent rage.”
Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters
“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and stories of white demonstrators being beaten and maimed by mobs and police that the public be-gan to protest. Negroes have become so used to this double stan-dard that they, too, react differently to the death of a white. When white freedom riders were brutalized along with blacks, a sigh of relief went up from the black masses, because the blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity. America has never truly been outraged by the murder of a black man, woman, or child. White politicians may, if Negroes are aroused by a particular murder, say with their lips what they know with their minds they should feel with their hearts-but don't.”
Source: SOUL ON ICE
“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.”
“The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.”
Source: The Huey P. Newton Reader
“The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.”
“The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.”
“The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“The Radiance Inna Sacred Globe Orifices The Rainbow Facet And The Sea Forges The Hourglass At Its Sandy Zenith Inna Hexagonal Prism”
“The Radiance Inna Sacred Globe Orifices The Rainbow Facet And The Sea Forges The Hourglass Inna Hexagonal Prism At Its Sandy Zenith”