Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

Henry Adams

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Henry A. Kissinger

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

Helio Castroneves

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

Henry Ford

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance 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.

Lee Freedman

All week I was worrying about tacking that race on to the end of a six-race preparation. He had been in work for a long time.

Tom Danielson

This is my first race in 11 months,

Eric Hoffer

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Eric Hoffer

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Eric Hoffer

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Eric Bana

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

Enoch Powell

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Lord Acton

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

M. Scott Peck

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

Orson Scott Card

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

We feel pretty strongly that we can be competitive here. Every race now is important for us.

Robert Kiyosaki

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

Stephen Lang

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Ray Stannard Baker

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

Thomas Jefferson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

Rick Santorum

We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.

Taylor Caldwell

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Tacitus

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Tacitus

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

Swami Vivekananda

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.