Race Quotes · Page 58

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that…

— Michelle Alexander

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

— Barack Obama

You go your whole life for one moment that boils down to a race that lasts a couple seconds.

— Caeleb Dressel

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

— Monty Woolley

We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as…

— Friedrich Engels

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably,…

— Michael Sandel

What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind…

— Jinkx Monsoon

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

“You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races.…

— Felix Clay

... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races…

— Carson McCullers

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a…

— Bubba Wallace

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value,…

— James Baldwin

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the…

— Edward Wilmot Blyden

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did…

— Anonymous

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all…

— Chris Ware

Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my…

— Gabourey Sidibe

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race…

— William Saroyan

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups…

— Chuck D

We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love…

— Asher Roth

I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do,…

— Bill Hicks

And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks…

— Max Muller

“Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were…

— bell hooks

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

— Janet Evanovich

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning…

— Plato

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I…

— Lester Holt

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

— David Bohm

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their…

— Christina Stead

Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work…

— David Bergland

The biggest problem for me is that if you are in the race you can't develop yourself to try and educate yourself…

— David Wagner

I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you…

— Michael Jackson

I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather.…

— Gertrude Diamant

Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach…

— Michael Phelps

There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be…

— Bertrand Russell

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

— Jimi Hendrix

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

— Rivaldo

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

— Gail Godwin

I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.…

— Simone Weil