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“The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.”

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Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

“Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.”

People Humans Common Race Study Conflict Concepts Species Tendencies Descent Family History Biologist Human Species

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.”

People Humans Sometimes Shows Social Common Race Share Projects Arguing Silly Genes Constructs Genome Genome Project Human Genome Project

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”

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Author:William Beveridge

“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.”

Humanity Differences Common Race Nationality Common Humanity

Author:Naveen Andrews

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”

Men Common Race Generations Kings Twenties Common Sense One Man

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.”

Men Mean Seems Today Common Race Blood Fairs All Things Claims Deny Agreement Quantity Ink Reckless Ambiguous Explosives

Book:Race: a study in superstition

Source: Race: a study in superstition

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.”

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Book:Character

Source: Character

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”

“Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.”

Heart Kind Easy Common Race Quality Regard Simplicity Common Sense Generosity Islands Characteristics Rough Admiration Strongest Southern Manliness Kind Heart Geniality

Author:Ernest Bevin

“We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.”

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Author:Richard Conniff

“The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.”

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Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.”

Source: Conversations with Margaret Walker

“Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.”

Long Lasts Winning Common Race Technology Civilization Presses Common Sense Technological Printing Printing Press

Book:Cauldron

Source: Cauldron

“If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”

Common Effort Race Share Labor Burden Shoulders Curse

Book:Speeches and debates, 1856-1858

Source: Speeches and debates, 1856-1858

“Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.”

States Common Race Class Practice Psychology Cutting Gender Boundaries Psychological Yearning

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.”

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Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.”

“Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.”

Men Common Race Regulation Adapted

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”

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Author:Gilbert F. White

“When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.”

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Book:Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

Source: Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.”

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Author:Bobby Scott

“We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."”

Ifs World Action Energy Common Race Responsibility Magic Inspire Clean International China Dominant Providers Clean Energy Protocol Magic Words

Author:Jay Inslee

“America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.”

People World America Culture Language Common Race Color Mainstream New Life Common Language

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.”

Thinking Christ Common Race Goes On Track Common Denominator Race Track

Author:Kyle Petty

“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition”

“For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.”

Mind Body Common Race Failing Prove Instinct Seeking Appeals Reasoning Occult Primal

Book:Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

“Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

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