Race And Class Quotes
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All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.
— Kate Sheppard
It's literature that provides solace to hearts wounded by man made divisions of religion, race, class, gender and class...
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.
— Marmaduke Pickthall
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
— Portia De Rossi
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
— Dorothy Allison
subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.
— Allan G. Johnson
Race is totally overhyped these days, black people need to get over themselves, it's all about class now, the haves and the have-nots,
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
— Mitch Landrieu
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
— Frances Power Cobbe
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
— Max Brooks
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
— Henry Louis Gates
The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.
— Moses Hess
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
— Robert Hughes
One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race
The human race. — Edith Hahn Beer
The human race. — Edith Hahn Beer
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
— Bell Hooks
...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed.
— Curtis W. Jackson
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.
— George Saunders
All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
— Ezra Koenig
Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
— Melissa Farley
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
— Elizabeth Janeway
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
— Sidney Poitier
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
— Giambattista Vico
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
— A. Philip Randolph
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
— Bell Hooks
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
— Rita Dove
A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
— Lance Loud
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
— Will Self
Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him.
— Damon Galgut
So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?
— Victor Davis Hanson
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
— Gloria Steinem
We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
— Wendy Kopp
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
— James Hillman
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
— Margaret Mead
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".
— Neil Postman
Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.
— Mohith Agadi