Quotes about race
race white social
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith. James A. Forbes
race medicine joy
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race. James Agee
race slavery remember
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. James A. Garfield
race racism racist
All racists are irresponsible. James A. Baldwin
race fields civil-rights
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. Jackie Robinson
race saving
The English as a race are not worth saving! Jack Straw
race president may
While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States. Hillary Clinton
race views law
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance). Ernst Haeckel
race sight years
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction. Florence King
race imagination eccentric
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. Fanny Burney
race earth crime
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. Francis Bacon
race imagination people
We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders. Chris Wooding
race messages candidates
Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message. George W. Bush
race matter wells
Values matters well in a race.
race motorcycle desert
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing. George Stroumboulopoulos
race people racism
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it. George Orwell
race long crash
The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash. Garth Stein
race long firsts
[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.
race japan korea
When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. Fernando Alonso
race process ends
Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well. Ferdinand Porsche
race may weakness
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity! Henri Frederic Amiel
race people balance
Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation. Helen Keller
race ducks pie
Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. Cassandra Clare
race type certain
It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang. J. B. Smoove
race justice special
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. Franz Boas
race adoption choices
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. Jennifer Gilmore
race culture genius
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them Jawaharlal Nehru
race literature language
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions. Gerald Brenan
race should humans
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino
race break-off two
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.
racetrack trip willie
My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park, Bobby Flay
race earth praying
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis
race achievement silence
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.