Quotes about race
race tragedy forgotten
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine. Shirley MacLaine
race air self
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. Steven Pressfield
race doors enemy
If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. Sun Tzu
race law people
An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse. Strom Thurmond
race religion wizards
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. Umberto Eco
race coward flags
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
race leader fields
The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants Rick Warren
race blood annabeth
Race you to the road?" I said. "You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her. For once, I didn't look back. Rick Riordan
race rivers water
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out. Vikram Seth
race
Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race? Ta-Nehisi Coates
race bridges people
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes
race creative mind
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius. T. S. Eliot
race culture majority
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down. Taylor Branch
race government doors
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
race car crow
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. Ray Stannard Baker
race color skills
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. Stedman Graham
race skins cleansing
While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad. Stephen Colbert
race demise arms
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Virgil
race athletic type
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. Vivienne Westwood
race world may
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin
race poetry proportion
Poetry fettered fetters the human race. William Blake
race painting proportion
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
race sticks ends
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. Wentworth Miller
race lynching racism
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. Samuel L. Jackson
race may different
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike . Salman Rushdie
race car skateboarding
If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active. Ryan Sheckler
race diversity age
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. Ryan Phillippe
race people feel-good
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about. Wesley Morris
race may have-faith
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? W. H. Auden
race employment kingdoms
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. William Cobbett
race car shapes
Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated. Tony Stewart
race humanity library
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. Vartan Gregorian
race practice
I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice. Tyson Gay