Race Quotes

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?

William Blake 1803

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer, The Odyssey

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehre

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

Katherine Anne Porte

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken