Race Quotes · Page 185

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they…

— Billie Jean King

I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it…

— Allen West

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument…

— Robert Dale Owen

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a…

— Anonymous

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life;…

— Ouida

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and…

— George Catlin

If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are…

— Satoru Iwata

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

— Gerry Spence

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh…

— Paula Radcliffe

“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to…

— thaddeus stevens

My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up…

— Joe Thomas

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate…

— Michael Meacher

America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite…

— Ronald Reagan

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

— Tony Robbins

Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very…

— T. H. White

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.

— Steve Fowler

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he…

— Robert Gibbs

Peter leans forward and looks into my eyes. "The serum will go into effect in one minute," he says. "Be brave, Tris."…

— Veronica Roth

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

— Craig Kilborn

As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.

— Amber Liu

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

— Melissa Farley

Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this…

— Dalia Mogahed

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample…

— Woody Allen

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's…

— Charles Wesley

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

— Charles Kennedy

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at…

— Jeff Galloway

I've got a strength and conditioning coach, a weights coach, but I've also got a nutritionist, a physiotherapist and a masseur available…

— Liam Tancock

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

— Sandeep Kumar

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

— Jesse Jackson

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several…

— Herman Melville

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'

— Robin Sharma

In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself,…

— Laurie R. King

Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands…

— Edward Joseph Young

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really…

— Maria Semple