Race Quotes

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

I know that my race must change.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.

Newt Gingrich got in hot water during his 2012 presidential race for using campaign funds to pay himself $47,000 for a mailing list.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk about and joke about and discuss with my loved ones every day of my life.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows?

Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.