Best 4508 quotes in «race quotes» category

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical.

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.