Race Quotes

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

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.

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

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

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.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

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 Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

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.