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“At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.”

Years Lasts Race History Five Hundred Instance African American American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.”

People Has Beens Nations Effort Race Teach History Mankind Glory Determination African American Honour Cowardice American History Manly Scraping

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

“The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.”

Nations Race Destiny History Movement Guides African American Posts American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.”

Race History Constant Invention Catastrophe

Book:God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.”

Men Humans Stories Race History Records Century Filled Deeds Human Race Great Men Sexism Volume Twentieth Century Completeness

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.”

Found Race History Blood Hair Casts Features Mixtures Roman Empire Complexion

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index

“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.”

Men Firsts Language Race History Influence Effects Speech Compare Illustration External Influences

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“History is the zoology of the human race.”

Humans Race History Human Race Humankind Zoology

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.”

Science Politics Energy Interest Nature Leadership Space Race Half History Technology Generations Century Policy Moon International Secure Ideology Racing Foreign Policy Diplomacy Arctic

Author:Rick Larsen

“The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.”

Believe Religion Politics Race History Violence Generations Policy Masters Human Rights Terrorism Ideology Foreign Policy Free Speech Nazi Militant Partisanship Islamists

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .”

Running Race Watches History

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

“[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.”

Said Father Christ Race Christianity History Goes On Europe Renaissance

Book:Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

Source: Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”

Suffering Humanity Process Race Christianity Principles History Stage Higher Civilization Infancy Barbarism

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.”

Humans Race Half History Human Race Conventional

Author:Barbara Mertz

“There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.”

Hands Past Race History Cold Flow Egotism Solemn

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.”

Men Has Beens Science Race History Rocks Treasure Dust Egypt Bricks Marble Family History Majestic Arches Oblivious Archives Monasteries Parthenon Coliseum

Book:Essays on Art and Archaeology

Source: Essays on Art and Archaeology

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

People Ifs Giving Years Earth Found Politics Race History Five College Five Years Amendments Prohibition Giving Money Constitutional Amendments Drug Prohibition

Author:Will Rogers

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

Way Funny Happiness Success Strong Sports Race Education History Battle Humorous Gambling Gamble Betting Murphys Law Gambling And Love

Author:Damon Runyon

“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”

Humans Art Philosophy Whole Humanity Animal Race History Human Race Farce Damned Human Race

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”

Ifs World Race History Danger Tradition Factors African American Worthwhile

Book:The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

Source: The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.”

Race History Development African American Reaching Segregation Enslavement

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

Different War Culture Poor Race History Creation Humour Communication Fishes Barriers Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Hitchhiking Different Races Babel

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

Source: Negro Makers of History

“It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.”

Writing Humans Doe Realizing Justice Human Beings Race History Stage Diversity Social Justice Historical Pity Human Race Jam

Author:Rebecca West

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

Men Should Humans Ends Age Race History Youth Illusion Human Race Feds Cynicism Altruism Renounce

Book:Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“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.”

People Spirit Common Numbers Race Principles Teach History Greater Consequence Accustomed Similarity

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.”

Science Nature Perfect Race History Creation Transformation Productivity Invisible Passing Passings Realms Hades

Author:Adolf Bastian

“If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.”

Ifs Men World Humans Names Race History Conditions Periods Historical Human Race World History Prosperous Hesitation Roman Empire

Author:Edward Gibbon

“The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.”

May War Reason Differences Race History Reason Why Superiority

Book:The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches

“Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.”