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“Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.”

Humans Has Beens Differences Race Study Various Human Race

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“Race differences show up early in life.”

Shows Differences Race Up Early

Book:Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective

Source: Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective

“You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.”

Nations Differences Love Is Race

Author:Ryuho Okawa

“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

“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.”

Men Made Use Feelings Government Age Sex Differences Race Moral Elements Climate Various Metaphysics Metaphysical Employed Aesthetics

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.”

Thinking Together Differences Race Universal Similarity

Author:Bill Cosby

“I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.”

Humans Wells Facts Age Energy Natural Differences Race Existence Known Tasks Universal Human Race Related Sole Natural Science Universal Energy

Book:Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957

Source: Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957

“It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Mean Nations Differences Human Beings Answers Race Depends Conscious Superiors Despise

Author:Enoch Powell

“I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Trying Important Different Loses Differences Race Diversity Valuable Different Ways Cultural Diversity Complementary Humanistic

Author:Alan Lightman

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“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

“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”

“Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.”

Kind Book Character Differences Race Particular Gay Sexuality Comic Dramatic Logical Peter Comic Book Bisexual Hypothetical Book Characters Peter Parker Comic Book Characters

Author:Andrew Garfield

“Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.”

Men Differences Race Greater Higher Highest Lowest Apes

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.”

Humans Differences Race Profound Fishes Human Race Fishing Divides Worms Bait

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.”

War Nations Sex Differences Race Compassion Accepting Empathy Competition Encounters Subjection Incapacity Lack Of Empathy

Author:Marya Mannes

“It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.”

Long Differences Race Color Logical Creeds Race And Color

Book:That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”

“I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.”

Want I Can Sex Causes Realizing Differences Race Middle Worst Car Derby Demolition Demolition Derby

Author:John Waters

“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.”

People Thinking Writing Humans Doe I Can Facts Action Differences Deals Race Fiction Reader Best Things Human Race Good Questions

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.”

Differences Race Human Nature Fades Fade Away Power Of Nature

Author:Barack Obama

“Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.”

War Christian Causes Differences Religious Race Class Violence Arguing Violent Chiefs Civil War Regions Clash Overlooking

Book:Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Source: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”

People Firsts Different Eye Lying Differences Race Feet Color Hair Shapes Built Skins Significant Brown Hierarchy Texture Lighters Showing Up Skin Color Eye Color

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.”

Long Differences Race Nice Amount Habit Regard Discrimination Observing Allowance

Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.”

Two Values Differences Race Fundamentals Treatment Motivated Differentiation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”

Source: Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.”

Kind Body Differences Race Moral Method Track Cards Gambling Lottery Pernicious Race Track

Book:The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States

Source: The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States

“I just loved the driving part. If I didn't race anybody, it didn't make any difference as long as I could drive. It's just the physical part of getting in the car and being able to go run fast and being able to drive.”

Ifs Long Running Able Differences Race Car Driving

Author:Kyle Petty

“Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.”

Language Differences Race Consciousness Eating Metaphor Gender Nationality Gender Differences

Book:The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“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”