Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Sacks

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

Omar Epps

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Octavia Spencer

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

Marvin Olasky

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Michael Johnson

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

Ted Rall

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

Theophile Gautier

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

Theodore Roosevelt

Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

Henry Ford

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Mahatma Gandhi

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

James Lankford

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Joan Fontaine

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things,

Jimmy Cannon

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Jimi Hendrix

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

Eric Liddell

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Eric Liu

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

Eric Heiden

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

Neal Boortz

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Neal Boortz

Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.

Michelle Malkin

Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

Michael Phelps

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

Sidney Poitier

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Neil Gaiman

You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?

John Muir

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

John Romero

The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.