Race Quotes & Sayings

Race Quotes & Sayings

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The race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. [Why I am an Unbeliever] - Carl Van Doren



Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. - Harry S. Truman



Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honour and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. - Homer



No historian can take part with, or against, the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. - Henry Brooks Adams



Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. - Phyllis McGinley



I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or colour. They are superior who have the best heart, the best brain. The superior man, stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. - Robert Green Ingersoll



If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. - Charles M. Allen



Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their conscience. I will still be moved by my dislike of the race discrimination against my people. When I come out from serving my sentence, I will take up again, as best I can, the struggle for the removal of those injustices until they are finally abolished. - Nelson Mandela



The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, 'The work is done. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.