Race Quotes

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinley

Gossip, Human, Same

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.
Shawn Johnson

Book, Sometimes, Matter

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
Juan Williams

Women, Vote, Won

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
Danica Patrick

Car, Mean, Down

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.
Danica Patrick

Big, Place, Else

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick

End, Decision, Win

The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
Danica Patrick

Done, Remember, Sure

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
Danica Patrick

Winning, Sometimes, Another

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Peter Stuyvesant

Trouble, Name, Christ

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking

Bad, Human, Often

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
Jim Ryun

Religion, Loyalty, Country

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
John Naisbitt

Technology, Spiritual, Human

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
Anna Deavere Smith

Work, School, True

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Anna Deavere Smith

Politics, Fear, Live

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Men, Human, Hell

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Charles Hamilton Houston

Children, America, Young

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
Lynda Barry

Stupid, Class, Divisions

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
Preston Manning

Society, Legal, Language

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Herman Kahn

War, Lack, Broke

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells

Show, Against, Somebody

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
Robert Griffin III

Life, Religion, Politics

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
Robert Griffin III

Parents, Big, Color

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
John Michael Hayes

Change, Become, House

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Paul Walker

Young, Wanted, Since

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
Ryan Lochte

Enjoy, Since, Racing

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
Eva Mendes

Violence, Seem, Criticize

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
Julian Fellowes

Time, Best, Forward

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.
Jenson Button

Car, Fight, Win

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.
Jenson Button

Time, Best, Amazing

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
Jenson Button

Women, Men, Same

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