Race Quotes

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

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.

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

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.

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.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

We will finish the 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.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

There really is no such thing as race.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.