Social & Racial Sayings

93 sayings found from the Modern era from 93 authors

The most depraved type of human being is the man who is happy to serve. A man who is happy to serve is a slave.

— Ayn Rand 1959
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The colonizer is a man who has been corrupted by power, by privilege, by the desire to dominate.

— Frantz Fanon 1961
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I don't believe in the perfectibility of the human race.

— Charles Dickens 1860
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The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not ashamed to say it.

— Mark Twain 1924
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I am not a feminist, but I am a woman. And I want to be heard.

— Virginia Woolf Approx. 1920s-1930s
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Courage is grace under pressure.

— Ernest Hemingway 1958
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All the nations of the world would be put upon an equal footing.

— Guglielmo Marconi 1903
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The English are a race of shopkeepers, and they have brought their shopkeeping mentality to governance.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1917
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson 1963
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The only thing that can save the world is the return of the feminine principle, the return of the goddess.

— Allen Ginsberg 1970s
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The only way to escape the past is to embrace it.

— William S. Burroughs Unknown
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to fear.

— Hunter S. Thompson 2003
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I don't know what it is about the human race, but we're always looking for trouble.

— Kurt Vonnegut N/A
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The only way to escape the past is to embrace the present. And the only way to embrace the present is to live in it.

— Philip K. Dick 1975
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There are some races which are inferior and some which are superior, and the superior races have a right to rule the inferior.

— Arthur Conan Doyle c. 1910
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How can I be a slave, when I was born free?

— Alexandre Dumas 1843
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What is freedom? The right to be a slave to one's own passions.

— Alexander Pushkin Early 19th century
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The sexual question and the racial question have always been intertwined.

— James Baldwin 1972
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It seems to me that the human race is like a lot of children playing in a nursery, and the grown-ups are not coming.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1942
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Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you learn to break that chain you can free yourself.

— Bob Marley Unknown
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