Top 1200 Race And Gender Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

There are challenging days - but I'd tell people they should really do what they are interested in and not think about their gender.

To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races--the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.

I write a little plan for the day. I write down what time I need to get up to go to the race, just so I'm organised in my mind. That way all I have to focus on during the day is the race, not how I'm going to get there. When you're training it's good to know what you're doing every day. You need to have a plan.

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.

I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.

To make it in Formula 1, which is the absolute pinnacle, is incredibly tough no matter what your gender.

It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

'Ki And Ka' in a very sweet way says that if you have talent, then gender doesn't matter.

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.

When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.

What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

I hope to be viewed and judged first and foremost by my accomplishments and capabilities as a leader - regardless of my gender.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would have been the greatest race in NASCAR history, I'm convinced of it, had we have made it that last quarter of a mile. But instead it became the worst race in NASCAR history when Dale crashed and died on turn four.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."

We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.

There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers.