Quotes About Race And Crime

#1. Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

Colin Flaherty

#2. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the
profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests
$4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive
than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?

Jonah Lehrer

#3. Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

Russell Pearce

#4. The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Ida B. Wells

#5. We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

Nelson Mandela

#6. Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

Don Rickles

#7. The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

J. Philippe Rushton

#8. If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#9. Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.

Lawrence Fagg

#10. There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

Clarence Darrow

#11. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...

Ravi Howard

#12. That every man, no matter what his color or race or creed might be, and no matter what the crime that he is charged with, each man in those circumstances is entitled to the fairest treatment that anybody can possibly give him.

Gilbert King

#13. The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

Conan O'Brien

#14. Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

Gretchen Rubin

#15. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.

Francis Bacon

#16. I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

Richard M. Nixon

#17. This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Matthew Dowd

#18. And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Nic Pizzolatto

#19. Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.

Achille Mbembe

#20. Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

Mark Twain

#21. When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

DaShanne Stokes

#22. Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

Frank Herbert

#23. Why couldn't he trust that the Lord would do the same for her? Because he knew she didn't believe.

Francine Rivers

#24. level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a

Nicola Yoon

#25. Race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Humans being humans, and sex being sex, that prohibition never stopped anyone. There were mixed kids in south Africa 9 months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach at Table Bay.

Trevor Noah

#26. Paul," he said, "do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices?"

It was stunning: even someone I considered a moral examplar had these questions in the face of mortality.

Paul Kalanithi

#27. We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

Marc Goodman

#28. Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

Dee Dee Artner

#29. The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

#30. The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

Bill Bennett

#31. The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

Immanuel Kant

#32. We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

Neal Shusterman

#33. A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

Henry De Montherlant

#34. Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols
when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action
they are sending messages more profound their language.

Jesse Jackson

#35. There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Miguel De Cervantes

#36. You never ask for permission, you just apologize later.

James S.A. Corey

#37. Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Barbara Ehrenreich