Race Quotes
4377 quotes by 2710 authors
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all…
— Margaret Atwood
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
— Sri Aurobindo
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
— Dan Aykroyd
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
— Charles Babbage
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I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a…
— Donovan Bailey
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
— James A. Baldwin
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I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
— Robert Ballard
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
— Honore de Balzac
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and…
— Honore de Balzac
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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…
— Eric Bana
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
— Henry Adams
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to…
— Roseanne Barr
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that…
— Dave Barry
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the…
— Daniel Berrigan
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way…
— Halle Berry
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