"Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness."
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"We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time."
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"I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race."
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"America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop."
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"There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all."
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"Illegal is not a race, it is a crime."
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"Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens."
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"Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature."
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"In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going."
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"I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason."
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"Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone?"
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"'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal."
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"They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps."
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"We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race."
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"Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible."
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"There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race."
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"The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination."
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"In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?"
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"If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races."
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"Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near."
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