Race Quotes - page 3

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. (L. Neil Smith)
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. View quote
Margaret Mead
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. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. View quote
Henry Miller
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. (George Santayana)
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lights of the world, and stars of human race. View quote
William Cowper
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. View quote
Georg Brandes
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. View quote
Don Marquis
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. View quote
Will Durant
I found, one day in school, a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babiesthat's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell)
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
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. View quote
Richard Feynman
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? View quote
Wole Soyinka