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“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

Firsts Bigs Black President Race Focus Risk Possibility Months Republican Six Democratic Clinton Contests Black Women Six Months Qualified Nominations

Author:Barack Obama

“Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.”

Knows America Race Conversation

Author:Paul Singer

“I think one of the reasons with problems with conversation on race is that this is such a deeply personal conversation that it requires trust and someone you know.”

Thinking Knows Reason Problem Race Conversation

Author:Jonathan Capehart

“It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.”

Ifs Hard Use Three Left Causes Easy Black Race Authority March Resentment Cop Organize Policemen Arrested Whips Mississippi Smack Baltimore

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.”

Seems Race Subjects Discussing

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.”

Ifs World Stills Two America Causes Powerful Race Influence England Unions Factors Branches Alliances Anglo Saxon England And America

Author:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.”

Race Summer Bird Wheels Mates

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.”

Grows Race Weakness Weak Mortals Dizzy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.”

Humans Race Records Regret Flight Human Race Aviation

Author:Winston Churchill

“And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.”

Lasts Race Flower Lonely Blue Breeze

Author:William C. Bryant

“The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things”

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.”

Way Humans Stills Two Problem Race Safe Triumph Ease Human Race Comparison Toil Disgrace Two Ways

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it”

World Government Race Share Century Denied Tenacious

Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.”

Loss Race Equal Gains Claims

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”

Men Humans Together Race Marriage Jokes Men And Women Human Race Cosmic

Author:Mark Twain

“A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.”

Done Nations Race Guilt Heavy Benevolence Atonement

Book:A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

“A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.”

Men Should Mind Running Race Ears Terror

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

Source: Virginibus Puerisque

“I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.”

Ifs Ends Might Kids Race Gone Couple Self Confidence Winner Stubborn Drains

Author:Truman Capote

“Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.”

Years Wells May Doe Song Race Flower Gratitude Seasons Mark Triumph Remembered Easter Monument Navigators Jubilation

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.”

Use Action Three Language Race Crime Messages Blue Profound Strikes Suits Symbols Welfare Affirmative Action Affirmative Three Strikes Sending A Message

Author:Jesse Jackson

“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start”

Winning Race Timely Swiftness

Book:Illustrated Tales

Source: Illustrated Tales

“Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.”

People Said Nations Hurt Race Luxury

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.”

Thinking Kind Mean Running Courses Race Dad Smart Picks Scary Mates Propositions Mccain

Author:Jay Leno

“Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.”

Ifs World Want Years Facts Courses Fun Race Adventure Grew Mountain Ocean Grew Up Snow Desert Motivated Weekend Exploring Avenues Surf Skis Showcase San Diego

Author:Robert Burns

“Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.”

Stills Hands Spirit Race Hero Lamps

Book:Andromeda: And Other Poems

Source: Andromeda: And Other Poems

“The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

Writing Whole Race Fate Poet Propositions Eccentric

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.”

World Moving Race Performances Objectives Advertising Ease Indifferent Assured Revolt Yuppies Defectors

Book:America

Source: America

“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.”

Ifs World Should Firsts Looks States Can Do Rooms Race Fine Balance Majority California Hopeful Microcosm

Author:William J. Clinton

“When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.”

Ends Christian Together Black White Race Trouble Color Brown

Author:Barry Goldwater

“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".”

“Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.”

Ifs Mean Ideas Facts Seems Simple Race Sun Obvious Endless Agreement Wrangling

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”

Men Should House Strong Sides Race Wise Weak Let Me Foolish Seats Should I Hospitality Bans Cynic

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.”

Humans Race Divine Tragedy Forgotten Human Race

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find.”

People Thinking Different America Beautiful Girl Black Race Nice Models Backgrounds Casting Beautiful Girl Ethnic Background

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!”

Mind Art Eye Running Joy Voice Race Morning Cry Thousand Spring Busy Waking Rays Rome Excess Thrilling These Eyes

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.”

Men Want Should Humor Funny Guy Turns Race Feet Car Window Radio Circles Drivers Keep Going Tides Slow Down Bugs Turn-on Passengers Race Car

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.”

Humans Race Known Racism Prejudice Human Race Arrogance

Author:Ruth Benedict

“The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.”

“What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.”

Reason Christian Speak Church Race Pure Profession Faithful Folds Selected Meek

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe

“A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.”

Want School Pay Race Criticism Blind Faults Slave Mere Ancient Obedience Merit Greece Bigots Blind Obedience

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.”

Heart Done Light Running Spirit Turns Race Sun Fire Grace Air Companionship Blast

Book:Songs Before Sunrise

Source: Songs Before Sunrise

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

Humans Has Beens Age Past Race Vision Failing Society Century Human Nature Goodness Noble Doctrine Golden Human Race Mischief Whim Golden Age

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”

Form Individual Powerful Acting Race Existence Struggle Survival Selection Recurring Struggle For Existence

Author:Charles Darwin

“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.”

World Inspirational Humans Lasts Past Mother Passion Race Teach Saws Blind Human Race Blindness Brooding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.”

People Said America Given Black Race Kings Checks Black People Luther

Author:Andrew Young

“Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?”

Men Earth Space Race Embrace Outer Space

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.”

Humans Earth Spiritual Heaven Race Lord Divine Holy Angel Flow Human Race Matrimony Proceeding Estimation Conjugal

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.”

Humans Whole Loses Race Forgiveness Revenge Human Race Vengeance

Book:It's Murder, Mr. Potter

Source: It's Murder, Mr. Potter

“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.”

World Way Made Matter Race Wide Oppression Behave Exploitation Imperialism

Author:Han Suyin