Quotes about race
race literature finance
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Honore de Balzac
race islam ideology
Islam is an ideology. It's not a race. Ibrahim Hooper
race ran strong
He ran a really smart, strong race today.
race won
He probably would have won the race and it would be a different story. Jimmie Johnson
race ruled totally
For the moment, I have totally ruled out the governor's race, John Salazar
race long obstacles
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. Jack Paar
race afros
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. Ida B. Wells
race afros fallen
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
race law punishment
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
race giving approval
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well. Idries Shah
race ice way
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings. Kingsley Amis
race people realizing
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. Margaret Atwood
race virtue guides
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero
race mind world
This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
race unions fellowship
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
race would-be able
I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race. Kenny Smith
race people records
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone. Ken Loach
race competition important
Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008. Ken Mehlman
race effort trying
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. Georg Brandes
race numbers people
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
race progress where-you-come
It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal. Gloria Estefan
race always-trying dodge
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
race white racism
I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white. Frank Zappa
race government color
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color. Fred Korematsu
race ethnicity spy
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.
race history invention
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Frank Herbert
race literature next
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. Lafcadio Hearn
race effort genocide
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. L. Neil Smith
race elements authority
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race P. J. O'Rourke
race long earth
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet. Paul Johnson
race language
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. Oscar Wilde
race mind body
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind. Lucretius
race people feminist
But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.