- Leg
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race Quotes
Equality, origin, and the long run.
One of the most direct lines in this collection states plainly that no race is superior or inferior to another, a straightforward affirmation of equality worth featuring on its own. Related themes continue in Human.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of 'Drag Race' is always the appearance and the challenge. It's never just the challenge. It's always the combination.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020