If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

No one has been successful in this —race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. "We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. "We' would simply tell, —Dear Man, I am not capable.

Your race is your diminishing life

The disappearing time is the race of life

Life is a race against disappearing time

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all reasonable possibility, be what colored men make of it.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

There are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

That is all anyone here ever struggles for: to be nearer the white man. All the shouting against the white man was not hate. It was love. Twisted, but love all the same.

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.