Race Quotes

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

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.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.