Race Quotes

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells

Time, Future, Human

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Best, Hard, May

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo

Human, Progress, Realize

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Steve Prefontaine

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell

Cannot, Else, Color

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson

History, Thought, Danger

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint Eastwood

Long, Country, Everyone

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Human, Hatred

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, Human, Knows

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Human, Everyone

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey

Accomplish, Mighty

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey

Liberty, Problem, Until

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Live, Greatest, Political

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

Hate, Human, Liberty

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Age, History, Poetry

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine

Music, Beautiful, Words

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Women, Fire, Doubt

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Done, Him

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington

Education, Religion, Politics

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Writing, Dignity, Prosper

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Human, Governed

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham

Power, Human, Speak

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington

End, Done, Individual

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Carroll O'Connor

Hate, Stupid, Done

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, Human, Wrong

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Billy Graham

Help, Problem, Poor

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Music, Poetry, Human

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