Social & Racial Sayings

222 sayings found from 222 authors

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

— Henry David Thoreau 1854
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Disgust is a deeply unreliable emotion that has been used to justify forms of discrimination such as sexism, homophobia, and racism.

— Martha Nussbaum 2004
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The only way to be free is to be a slave to the truth.

— Simone Weil 1947
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Benevolence brings honour; cruelty, disgrace.

— Mencius 4th century BCE
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The gentleman is broad-minded but not indiscriminate; the petty man is indiscriminate but not broad-minded.

— Xunzi circa 300 BCE
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The white race is the cancer of human history.

— Wole Soyinka 1970s
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The decline of the West began when it embraced moral relativism.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1978
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The blacks are a race of children, incapable of serious thought or sustained effort.

— Jules Verne 1875
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I am a slave of the wine-drinking sage of Shiraz.

— Hafez 14th century
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Slavery was a choice.

— Kanye West 2018
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

— Banksy 2010
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I don’t give a damn about your white supremacy.

— Johnny Cash 1970
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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

— Warren Buffett 2006
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We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty than by a vaunt of riches.

— Pericles 431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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But those who obey the rulers it reviles as willing slaves and men of naught, but it commends and honors in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers. Is it not inevitable that in such a state the spirit of libe…

— Socrates ~375 BC
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It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

— David Hume 1742
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1685
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That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, less intelligent.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 (approx.)
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In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter.

— William Butler Yeats c. 1900s-1920s
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We all know that slavery was not a choice. So I just think that people need to understand that if you know your history, if you know the truth, you know that's just foolishness.

— Stevie Wonder 2018
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