Race Quotes

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.

Rick Perry said Donald Trump is unfit to be president and called for him to immediately withdraw from the race. Then he said, 'And that's coming from ME!'

Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.