A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“As Louie bent, gasping, over his spent legs, he marveled at the kick that he had forced from his body. It had… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“We have a collection of 800 jars of soil in our museum. We collect these soils from lynching sites. People who are… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
You hear stories about the horror crashes of the Dakar Rally, which is a long 16-day race, and about people getting lost… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked;… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are… — J. Drew Lanham Copy Share Image
Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image