Race famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
-- A. A. Milne -
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
-- Abdus Salam -
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
-- Abraham Cahan -
He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.
-- Abraham Cahan -
Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
-- Abraham Cowley -
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
-- Abraham Flexner -
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
-- Ace Frehley -
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
-- Adam Clarke -
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
-- Adam Schiff -
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
-- Adam Yauch -
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.
-- Adolf Bastian -
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions of members of the highest culture- race must remain in entirely unworthy positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are trained for intellectual professions.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes. The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew. The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples. (7th February 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.
-- Adolf Hitler -
...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.
-- Adolf Hitler -
If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile
-- Adolf Hitler -
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.
-- Adolf Hitler -
And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.
-- Adolf Hitler -
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
-- Adolf Loos -
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
-- Ahmad Alaadeen -
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
-- Akshay Kumar -
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
-- Al Gore -
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
-- Al McGuire -
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it
-- Al-Kindi -
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
-- Alain Prost -
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
-- Alain Prost -
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
-- Alain Prost -
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
-- Alain Prost -
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
-- Alain Prost -
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
-- Alan Bennett -
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
-- Alan Lightman -
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
-- Albert Camus -
Chacun exige d'e"Â tre innocent, a'Â Â tout prix, me"Â me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
-- Albert Camus -
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
-- Albert Camus -
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America ... The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world.
-- Albert J. Beveridge -
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
-- Albert J. Beveridge -
We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.
-- Alberto Salazar -
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
-- Aldous Huxley -
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
-- Aleister Crowley -
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
-- Alex Kingston -
Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.
-- Alex Steffen -
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
-- Alexander Pope -
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
-- Alexander Pope -
The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
-- Alexander Pope -
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
-- Alexander Smith -
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
-- Alexander Smith -
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
-- Alexander the Great -
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".
-- Alfonso Garcia Robles -
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the Soul of the Race, which, after a period of long slumber, victoriously put an End to Racial Chaos.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
-- Alfred von Tirpitz -
I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.
-- Ali Mazrui -
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
-- Alice Neel -
The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
-- Alice Paul -
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
-- Alice Walker
