#race

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#continue #create #depths #embraces #form

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ↗

— George Eliot

#again #choice #choose #divine #god

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#donors #gift #give #how #importantly

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#corruption #forget #god #immorality #lead

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#as far as #blood #concerned #continued #day

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#back #comes #different #discrimination #gender

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#finish #hang #human #human race #like

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#got #like #not talking #percent #practicality

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#being #grace #i #i think #kind