Social & Racial Sayings

222 sayings found from 222 authors

I fear me, I shall never be able to answer the King's Grace in these matters, but with peril of my life.

— Thomas More c. 1557 (referring to 1534)
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There are many who are more afraid of poverty than of hell.

— Erasmus 1500-1536
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It is dangerous to make a man see too clearly his equality with brutes without showing him his greatness.

— Blaise Pascal 1669 (posthumous)
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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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The trace is not a presence but a simulacrum of a presence that dislocates, displaces, and refers beyond itself.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
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The only way to escape ideology is to embrace it.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s
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The legacy of white supremacy is still alive and well in America.

— Cornel West 1993
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The people who are pushing this notion that gender is a social construct, they’re doing it to destabilize the fundamental elements of society.

— Jordan Peterson 2016
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The new ruling class will be those who own the data.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2016
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The problem with democracy is that it's based on the idea that everyone's opinion is equally valid.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2019
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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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The web is not a privilege, it is a right.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2014
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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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I'm not a feminist. I'm a Black woman.

— Toni Morrison 1994
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I'm a feminist. I've been a feminist all my life. I've been a feminist since I was a little girl.

— Maya Angelou 1998
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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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It is a strange thing that a man should be so proud as to despise others for their poverty.

— Moliere 1670
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