Quotes about race
race racing clue
I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race. Herb Elliott
race motorcycle use
Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street. Jeff Kent
race political designation
Race designation is a political designation. Jesse Jackson
race two differences
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top. Jesse Helms
race blue profound
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
race people humanity
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.
race white social
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith. James A. Forbes
race medicine joy
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race. James Agee
race slavery remember
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. James A. Garfield
race racism racist
All racists are irresponsible. James A. Baldwin
race fields civil-rights
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. Jackie Robinson
race saving
The English as a race are not worth saving! Jack Straw
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
race people chicago
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago. Harold Washington
race people black
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. Jamaica Kincaid
race world incredibles
It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
race skin-color skins
It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.
race people black
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.
race america holocaust
The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.
race dwarves faults
Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.] J. R. R. Tolkien
race perfection humanity
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. Immanuel Kant
race perfect political
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
race genuine-love people
Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options. Jill Scott
race giving might
What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach. Jerry Garcia
race judging employment
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency. Jeremy Bentham
race lap closing
You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race. Jeff Gordon
race car way
I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.
race car different
When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
race car driving
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.