1.
The Bible -
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
2.
Proverb -
“Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)”
3.
Mark Twain -
“My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian—an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them.... The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine—for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.”
4.
Herbert Spencer -
“This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'”
5.
Alan Paton -
“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.”
6.
Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid -
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged.”
7.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
“The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.”
8.
Thurgood Marshall -
“[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”
9.
Andrea Dworkin -
“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”
10.
Peter Brimelow -
“The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.”
11.
Robert Chase -
“I have discovered that this world is harsh, cruel and nasty enough without writing off entire classes of individuals on the basis of their colour or national origin. There are enough people in the world who can be judged on the basis of their actions that we don't need to judge others merely on the basis of their colour or nationality.”
12.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red — at least not on the outside.”
13.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation.... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.”
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Dr. Albert Schweitzer -
“A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence-it is atonement.”
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