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“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“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 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.”

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Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.”

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Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”

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Book:Barbara Bush: A Memoir

Source: Barbara Bush: A Memoir

“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.”

“Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.”

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Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”

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Author:Kate Sheppard

“Segregation is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

Source: Wealth of Words