Quotes about race
race giving humanity
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well. Edgar Lee Masters
race iran europe
We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East. We will also make that Putin knows we have brigades in eastern Europe to make sure we deter his aggression. Peace through strength works. Bobby Jindal
race people tolerance
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
race islam democracy
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
race common-sense people
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history. Arthur Bryant
race half apologizing
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race. Bella Abzug
race age safe
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
race class diversity
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women. bell hooks
race racism understanding
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.
race years awards
My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons. Daniel Ellsberg
race together knees
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. Daniel H. Wilson
race two able
The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out. Dan Wheldon
race realizing humans
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. Dan Aykroyd
race government critics
Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race. Craig Kilborn
race people sexuality
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. Connor Franta
race drs moments
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense. Connie Willis
race barbie fads
Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
race important speed
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. B. C. Forbes
race important speed
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
race said ifs
I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won. Asafa Powell
race members active
I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member). Ashleigh Brilliant
race diversity population
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. Arthur Keith
race arms maintaining
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. Arthur Henderson
race class people
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? Beah Richards
race movement injustice
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. Avery Brundage
race want littles
I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off. Charles Bukowski
race rocks dying
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. Bruce Springsteen
race life-is built
Every single thing in my life is built around race. Jamie Foxx
race lynching names
I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. James Weldon Johnson
race people burning
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
race able should
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
race europe law
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. Antonin Artaud
race viewpoints economic
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. Frederic Bastiat