Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    The whole race is a poet that writes down
    The eccentric propositions of its fate.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
    Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

    The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)