Best circumstances & race Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”

Believe Wells Book Race Mankind Circumstances Creatures Capable Noble Proof

Book:A Book for a Corner

Source: A Book for a Corner

“No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.”

World Humans Form Natural Race Color Circumstances Diversity Human Race Natural World Inexplicable

Book:Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...

Source: Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...

“One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.”

Persons Made Use Bigs Black Race Mistake Circumstances Racism Europe Chinese Big Mistake Black Person

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.”

Mind Made Body Race Circumstances Racism Suspicion Inferiors Mind And Body Endowment

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.”

Thinking Way Want Different Enough Stories Church Acting Race Circumstances Approach Picks Broads Different Times

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do”

Church Race Lord Honor Circumstances Members Credit Bless Only Love Love One Another Animosity

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.”

Care Sex Race Color Circumstances Degrees Blind

Book:How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

Philosophy Age Nations Race Situation Class Circumstances Creating Birthday Existential Torches

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”

Race Circumstances Civilization Truth Is Weapons Spread Wide Catastrophe Teaching Learning

Author:H. G. Wells

“People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.”

People Ifs Would Be Differences Race Groups Dog Circumstances Raised Fewer Toys Foxes Australian Ethnic Groups Terriers Riyadh

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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