Best shame & race Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.”

Humans Done Earth Political Race Shame Human Race Posture

Author:Max Weinberg

“Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.”

Ifs Problem Culture Can Do Race Leader Saws Military Changed Huge Models Shame Cycles Severe Paradigm Detrimental Paradigm Shift

Author:Amy Ziering

“I learned many lessons from my first race with my heroes. I learned it was easier to breathe when I cried, so I cried often and without shame. I learned that a teammate's faith in you can propel you up any mountain. I learned that winning requires an entirely different mind-set than not losing. I learned that the best teams in the world share not only their strengths but also their weaknesses. I learned that you don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.”

World Mind Firsts Different Winning Race Team Share Inspire Hero Easier Lessons Mountain Losing Weakness Shame Breathe Cried Teammate My Hero Mind Set Best Team Different Minds

Author:Robyn Benincasa

“I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”

Ifs Men World Earth Pain Spirit Waiting Sides Race Watches Dying Angel Hatred Shame Rewards Flesh Invisible Kingdoms Innocence Torture Crowns Scorn Crushed

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd”

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.”

Men Humans Children Race Generations Died Shame Good Things Human Race Admitting

Book:On the way to the wedding

Source: On the way to the wedding

“I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember when I've been that brave, and it shames me. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her; She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of the island that i'm not. It's like when the mare goddess looked into my eye; I felt that there was a part of myself that I didn't know.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.”

Men Needs Humans Success Race Worry Shame Human Race

Author:Mark Twain

“Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.”

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Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”

“You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.”

People World Whole White Race Crime Destruction Shame Whole World Guilty Nazi Great People Breakdown White Race

Author:Bronislaw Huberman

“I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.”

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Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.”

Men Humans Together Joy Names Race Plans Married Men And Women Shame Creator Human Race Continuing Fruitfulness

Book:Jephte's Daughter

Source: Jephte's Daughter

“If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.”

“Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.”

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Author:Blake Edwards

“I am pleased with the race and happy with fourth position. It was a real shame for the team that Felipe had an issue at the start. It was a lonely race but the final 20 laps were very tough. Sebastian was quicker than me, and closed up behind very fast, but the fight was really good fun. I know a few tricks that can really help to defend and they all worked today, and I am delighted to come out on top today.”

Knows Real Helping Today Fighting Fun Race Behinds Issues Team Position Tough Lonely Shame Finals Tricks Fourth Lap Delighted Good Fun

Author:Valtteri Bottas

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