Top Race Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Race quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Clarence Thomas
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
- Clarence Thomas
Collection: Race
Image of Richard E. Byrd
The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.
- Richard E. Byrd
Collection: Race
Image of Neal Shusterman
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.
- Neal Shusterman
Collection: Race
Image of Toni Morrison
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Race
Image of Stella Gibbons
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
- Stella Gibbons
Collection: Race
Image of Tony Bennett
Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?
- Tony Bennett
Collection: Race
Image of E. O. Wilson
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
- E. O. Wilson
Collection: Race
Image of Daniel Quinn
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.
- Daniel Quinn
Collection: Race
Image of Madam C. J. Walker
You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.
- Madam C. J. Walker
Collection: Race
Image of Charley Pride
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.
- Charley Pride
Collection: Race
Image of James A. Forbes
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
- James A. Forbes
Collection: Race
Image of Samuel Shem
I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.
- Samuel Shem
Collection: Race
Image of Dara Torres
Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.
- Dara Torres
Collection: Race
Image of Edward Teller
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
- Edward Teller
Collection: Race
Image of Margaret Sanger
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
- Margaret Sanger
Collection: Race
Image of Margaret Sanger
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.
- Margaret Sanger
Collection: Race
Image of Bill Rodgers
Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.
- Bill Rodgers
Collection: Race
Image of Abdu'l-Bahá
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.
- Abdu'l-Bahá
Collection: Race
Image of Abdu'l-Bahá
One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.
- Abdu'l-Bahá
Collection: Race
Image of H. G. Wells
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
- H. G. Wells
Collection: Race
Image of William Irwin Thompson
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
- William Irwin Thompson
Collection: Race
Image of Connie Willis
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.
- Connie Willis
Collection: Race
Image of Connie Willis
Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
- Connie Willis
Collection: Race
Image of David Millar
If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.
- David Millar
Collection: Race
Image of Jack Paar
Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.
- Jack Paar
Collection: Race
Image of Todd Akin
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.
- Todd Akin
Collection: Race
Image of Spike Milligan
In the human race today, you came last.
- Spike Milligan
Collection: Race
Image of John Shelton Reed
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
- John Shelton Reed
Collection: Race
Image of Harold Washington
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.
- Harold Washington
Collection: Race
Image of Michelle Alexander
We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind
- Michelle Alexander
Collection: Race
Image of Michelle Alexander
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.
- Michelle Alexander
Collection: Race
Image of Michelle Alexander
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.
- Michelle Alexander
Collection: Race
Image of Colin Meloy
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
- Colin Meloy
Collection: Race
Image of Whitney M. Young
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
- Whitney M. Young
Collection: Race
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Race
Image of Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
- Ida B. Wells
Collection: Race
Image of Murray Rothbard
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
- Murray Rothbard
Collection: Race
Image of Jane Addams
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
- Jane Addams
Collection: Race
Image of Edwin A. Abbott
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
- Edwin A. Abbott
Collection: Race
Image of Tom Perrotta
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
- Tom Perrotta
Collection: Race
Image of Bill Nye
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
- Bill Nye
Collection: Race
Image of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Collection: Race
Image of Richard Wagner
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
- Richard Wagner
Collection: Race
Image of Ralph Steadman
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
- Ralph Steadman
Collection: Race
Image of Garth Stein
[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.
- Garth Stein
Collection: Race
Image of Garth Stein
This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.
- Garth Stein
Collection: Race
Image of Bertolt Brecht
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
- Bertolt Brecht
Collection: Race
Image of Jello Biafra
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
- Jello Biafra
Collection: Race
Image of Max Muller
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.
- Max Muller
Collection: Race
Image of Max Muller
And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.
- Max Muller
Collection: Race