Race Quotes

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

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.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

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.

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.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Every race is totally different.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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.