Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.
William Safire
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James Baldwin
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There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.
Roxane Gay
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To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
Gloria Steinem
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
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I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there needs to be more of it.
Jessica Williams
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Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?
William Godwin
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Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
Keegan-Michael Key
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When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.
Mike Binder
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I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
Gillian Jacobs
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle
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White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.
Jess Row
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I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.
Pramila Jayapal
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Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
George Edward Woodberry
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I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don't have to think about anymore, don't have to worry about anymore.
Michelle Alexander
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It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
Graydon Carter
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral
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The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.
Jerry Falwell
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Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.
Peter Morgan
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino
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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
Montel Williams
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong
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The Premier League is tough because, as soon as you lose a couple of games, you're out of the race for the league.
Fernando Torres
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
Jennifer Carpenter
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