Race Quotes

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

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.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.