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"'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves."
"Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?"
"In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race."
"I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws."
"I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities."
"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"
"All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits."
"Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal."
"... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever."
"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."
"A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear."
"But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God."
"If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race."
"But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."
"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth."
"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race."
"The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable."
"Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God."
"For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races."
"When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement."
