Race Quotes

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.