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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
Race

"These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race"

School Taken Race
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Henry Louis Gates Scholar, Historian
Race

"I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race."

Men Stories Race
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Lewis Hamilton Formula One Driver
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"It was my 44th win [in Monaco]; 44 is my race number; and it's been my number since I was 8. And it's my family's number as well. So it was a special day, for sure."

Winning Numbers Race
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles."

People Numbers Race
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."

Men Mean Race
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage"

Men Race Marriage
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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
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"the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools"

People Race Moon
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Jordan Peele Filmmaker, Actor
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"A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism."

America Race Racism
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time."

War Evil Race
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Race

"We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history."

Race Ends Social Network
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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat."

America Winning Race
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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability."

Race Boxing Heavyweights
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Barack Obama Politician
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"I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity."

Thinking Race Zero
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