Quotes about race
race environmental arms
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. Jello Biafra
race democracy use
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. Jeannette Rankin
race tortoises joyful
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise. Jeb Bush
race government issues
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family. Jim Edgar
race adoption african-american
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. Jennifer Gilmore
race adoption choices
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
race car results
A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car. Jeff Burton
race endeavor humans
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. Jean-Paul Sartre
race government years
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. George Will
race presidential why-not
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? Jim Hightower
race michigan genuine
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. Jim Harrison
race uncomfortable humans
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race. Jerry Spinelli
race culture genius
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them Jawaharlal Nehru
race president may
While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States. Hillary Clinton
race violence nudity
We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor. Eva Mendes
race wings soul
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. Eugene Delacroix
race views law
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance). Ernst Haeckel
race faults virtue
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters
race presidential growing
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. Grover Cleveland
race order people
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.
race rats tvs
TV is the rat race of the century. Groucho Marx
race typical mexico
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. Graham Greene
race humanity looks
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.
race justice social
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. Gerald Vizenor
race understanding independence
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? Harriet Martineau
race empires humans
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire, Hugo Chavez
race racism natural
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions. Howard Zinn
race needs allegiance
...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
race people lifetime
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race. Hortense Calisher
race crime humans
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. Horace
race car doubt
There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable. Guy Fieri
race revelations individual
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
race disaster humans
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. Gore Vidal