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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
Pope John Paul II

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

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

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

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen

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

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier

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

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

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

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