Race Quotes

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

Plodding wins the race.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.