Race Quotes - page 2

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)
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
Ray Charles
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. (Honoré de Balzac)
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Richard M. DeVos
Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
James Nasmyth
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Dante Alighieri
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
John Roberts
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.
Harry S. Truman
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
J. G. Ballard
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Čapek
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. (Adam Weishaupt)
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
David Duke
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Ezra Pound
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen Hawking