Race Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

...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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.

Women are an alien race set down among us.

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.