Quotes about race
race way enough
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. ' Maya Angelou
race political done
My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally. Max Weinberg
race class zombie
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. Max Brooks
race humanity world-war-z
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity. Max Brooks
race feelings watches
When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race. Mats Sundin
race sleep strategy work
I'm going to sleep first. And then I will work on a strategy and a preparation for the big race in July. Floyd Landis
race talk truck watch
I'm going to watch a little of the truck race and talk to a prospective new sponsor, Rusty Wallace
race class earthquakes
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. Karl Marx
race maintenance alive
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum. Karl Marx
race poland jew
The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races. Karl Marx
race class analysis
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. Judith Butler
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 my-family receptive
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions. Pam Grier
race tasks nuclear
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. Joseph Rotblat
race racism misanthropy
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? Joseph Brodsky
race humans human-race
Who included me among the ranks of the human race? Joseph Brodsky
race creative experience
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. Leonardo da Vinci
race stories ends
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race. Patrick Ness
race looks conflict
When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another. Muhammad Ali
race way separation
The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races. Muhammad Ali
race boxing heavyweights
I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability. Muhammad Ali
race views roots
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race. Martin Luther King, Jr.
race goal dying
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for. Martin Luther King, Jr.
race population doctrine
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Martin Luther King, Jr.
race command-and-control decision
We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems. Mikhail Gorbachev
race impact flying
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out. Nathan Myhrvold
race guy too-much
Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington. Mitt Romney
race humanity finals
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe R. Buckminster Fuller
race long hungry
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. R. Buckminster Fuller
race ethnicity people
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. Preston Manning
race government practice
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment." Potter Stewart
race justice development
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
race names numbers
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon