Race Quotes

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance and be the person to make the difference. I can't stand to be behind and I don't want to lose.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy.

I race to win. That's the point.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

All racists are irresponsible.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

I think Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are the frontrunners. It's kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad hair.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.