Race Quotes

4377 Race quotes by 2577 unique authors

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… — Mark Twain
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race… — Edwin Way Teale
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably… — Max Beerbohm
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my… — George Washington
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Unknown Author
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the… — Saint Augustine
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German… — Adolf Hitler
Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small… — Dan Jenkins
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and… — Tom Lehrer
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with… — Montel Williams
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the… — Nelson A. Miles
Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm… — Michael Jordan
Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of… — Steve Kerr
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. — Bob Cousy
Some people want to have controversy between the races. — Dennis Rodman

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