Race Quotes

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

Slow but steady wins the race.

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I'm not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

The Indian race is waiting and praying.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.