Race Quotes

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

I have to win races. It's not even an option.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

I never though much about race.

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.