"My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live."
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"For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence."
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"No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators."
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"On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth."
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"Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed."
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"We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races."
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"Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life."
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"The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions."
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"Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities."
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"Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force."
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"I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."
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"My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe."
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"I was born in a Negro town."
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"When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original."
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"Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a relationship to be discussed in any other manner."
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"If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact."
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"Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it."
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"The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds."
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"Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race."
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"You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country."
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