Race Quotes
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
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... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.
Usain Bolt
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
Albert Einstein
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Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.
Colin Chapman
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
Dan Carter
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Race differences show up early in life.
J. Philippe Rushton
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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
Halsey
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. Henry
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
Usain Bolt
