A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them it is not benevolence-it is atonement.
I have discovered that this world is harsh cruel and nasty enough without writing off entire classes of individuals on the basis of their colour or national origin. There are enough people in the world who can be judged on the basis of their actions that we dont need to judge others merely on the basis of their colour or nationality.
I have one great fear in my heart that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms is that which Mr. Darwin has called natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
My first American ancestor gentlemen was an Indianan early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them…. The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of minefor I am a mixed breed an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them it is not benevolence-it is atonement.
RED-SKIN n. A North American Indian whose skin is not red at least not on the outside.
I have discovered that this world is harsh cruel and nasty enough without writing off entire classes of individuals on the basis of their colour or national origin. There are enough people in the world who can be judged on the basis of their actions that we dont need to judge others merely on the basis of their colour or nationality.
The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
Genocide begins however improbably in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
The spirited horse which will try to win the race of its own accord will run ever faster if encouraged.
I have one great fear in my heart that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms is that which Mr. Darwin has called natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
My first American ancestor gentlemen was an Indianan early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them…. The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of minefor I am a mixed breed an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.