Race Quotes

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Children, Human

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster

Good, Mind, Human

I'm not an expert on the arms race.
Abdul Kalam

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac

Human, Member, Regard

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

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow

Women, Men, Human

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

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Political, Miracle, Physical

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman

Time, Free, Both

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

Nature, Hate, Human

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna

Car, Win, Enough

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

Education, Thought, Books

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Next, Space

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

God, May, Again

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Ayrton Senna

Feeling, Winning, Feelings

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
Ayrton Senna

Nothing, Win, Else

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Wait, Able

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margaret Sanger

Ignorance, Children, Deep

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Character, Live

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

Age, Long, Minds

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

Hate, Heart, Down

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

Education, History, Between

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

Great, America, Goes

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Hard, Poor, Hardships

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. Somerset Maugham

Heart, Human, Give

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

Time, Future, Human

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Islam, Black, Understand

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Done, America, Leader

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

Men, Sick, Between

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