Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

“This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)