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

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

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson

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 word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew Jackson

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

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
David Letterman

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Henry Miller

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

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