You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?
All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
