Best Race Quotes

I believe there is only one race – the human race.

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.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them and I do.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

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.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

I think people are people. If you want something, go get it. I don’t think it matters what race you are.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It’s like a rat race and even when you win you’re still a freaking rat.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity…

This may be the curse of human race. Not that we are different from one another, but we are so alike.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.

I was born in a Negro town.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time.’

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

I’ve always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

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.