When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.
DeRay Mckesson
GreatPeopleAmericaWillRaceOut
There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're black, or any kind of Asian, or any kind of Native American, but that you have no race if you are white.
Celeste Ng
BlackAmericanYouWhiteKindRace
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.
Michael Eric Dyson
KingPeopleLookWhiteWantRace
I don't believe in blanket statements on race.
Mark Bradford
BelieveRaceBlanketStatements
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott
PowerGuiltHelpRaceNeedRight
I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
Donovan Bailey
RelaxLearnTransitionRaceMore
Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
Burgess Owens
BestBlackAmericanWhiteRace
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
John Piper
FamilyStrongerRaceEthnicityThan
Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.
Marina Abramovic
LookAustraliaRaceDinosaursPlanet
As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
W. E. B. Du Bois
LazyRaceNegroes
It's exciting being around people who are adults - I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, 'Bye!'
Davinia Taylor
MorningPeopleDoorRaceOutBeing
It could potentially be a very competitive race.
Bill Luther
RaceCompetitiveVeryCould
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
Amiri Baraka
PeopleBluesJazzRaceOldAlways
To respond to North Korea by having our own nuclear weapons will not maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and could lead to a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.
Moon Jae-in
PeaceWillRaceLeadRespondOwn
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Vernor Vinge
RaceHumanExtinctionHuman Race
History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
Chris Gabrieli
HistorySmartYouRaceMorePay
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
HappinessPeopleRaceHatredHuman
My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
Alvin Lee
TimeNowBuildPlacesRaceMore
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
Mark Pagel
BestRaceMindsOthersBigBrains
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell
LiveSoulWillRaceEager
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher Hitchens
LifeFatherI AmKindRaceBecome
The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.
Alan Oliveira
WorkTimeRunAthleteRaceOwn
I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.
Stephen Hawking
FutureSpaceThinkGoRaceHuman
I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I've learned through YouTube, if it's not race, it will be sexism, if it's not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.
Lilly Singh
TimeFaceComedyWillRaceYouTube
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