Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.
Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.
Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Narcissists - people with an inflated self-concept and a strong sense of uniqueness and superiority - seek attention and affirmation on Facebook.
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
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