Race Quotes - Page 7

• Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

  Lydia M. Child

  Heart, Organization, Church

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• No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

  Mary Somerville

  Color, Diversity, World

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

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• [Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Dark, Light, Substance

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Ambition, Light, Peaceful

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

  Muriel Lester

  Peace, Regret, Eye

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• 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

  Nursing, Doors, Medical Profession

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Evil, Needs

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• I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

  Drew Barrymore

  Winning, Ideas, Okay

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• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Strong, Black, Add

  "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Work Out, Goal

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• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

  Paul Mooney

  Names, America, Code

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• I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

  Robert Herjavec

  Team, America, Ferrari

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• I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

  Jim Brown

  Needs, Actors, Theory

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• Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

  Horace

  Conceited, Self

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• The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

  Horace

  Country, Towns, Whole

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• The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
  [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach
  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dizzy, Weakness, Grows

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• Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Women, World, Christianity

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.71

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• Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Prudent, Lawyer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Talking, Weight

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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• Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
  Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

  Alexander Pope

  Sleep, Two, Pace

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.346, Lulu.com

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• Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
  To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Heaven, Peculiar

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

  Jim Caviezel

  People, Action, Judgment

  "Jim Caviezel Talks About Playing Christ in 'The Passion'". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  Tate Donovan

  Running, Brother, College

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• I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

  Stephen Mangan

  Couple, Done, Marathon

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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