Social & Racial Sayings

93 sayings found from the Modern era from 93 authors

Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.

— Joseph Smith 1844
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The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race.

— Sun Yat-sen 1924
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

— Andy Warhol Undated, likely from 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

— Hedy Lamarr Approx. 1950s-1960s
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The Tsar is the father of all the people, and he must love all his children equally.

— Rasputin Early 1900s (approximate)
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

— Harriet Tubman Late 1800s (approximate)
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

— Frederick Douglass 1845
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Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

— Charlie Chaplin Unknown
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I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

— Marilyn Monroe Unknown
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All is race; there is no other truth, and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

— Benjamin Disraeli 1847
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The human race is governed by its imagination.

— Nikola Tesla Unknown
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I would say that, yes, I am a racist in the sense that I believe there are differences between races.

— James Watson 2019
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What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races.

— Abraham Lincoln 1862
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

— Winston Churchill 1948
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The Jew is a parasite. He is a racial tuberculosis of the peoples.

— Adolf Hitler 1925
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The working class is the only class that can lead the revolution.

— Joseph Stalin 1927
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I am confident that the American people will not be stampeded by the small minority who are trying to make us believe that democracy is a failure.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt 1934
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The English are not a demonstrative race.

— Queen Victoria 1860s
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The State is an organ of domination of one class over another.

— Vladimir Lenin 1917
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The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

— Leon Trotsky 1920
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