Race Quotes

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.