Race Quotes - Page 35

• Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Comedian, Culture

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

  Peter Drucker

  Humans, Persons, Universal

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• My sister and I would race on the weekends. It was a way for my sister, my mom and me to spend time with my dad. He worked all week and worked a lot so it was a great way for us to spend time as a family and have fun.

  Danica Patrick

  Mom, Fun, Dad

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I always remind myself if I'm having a down day because of a bad race it's not just me. That feeling I'm having is shared by my family, the team and my fans. When we win they feel the joy as well. That's why I say we win and lose together, and I definitely couldn't do it without them.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Team, Winning, Joy

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

  I. F. Stone

  Fashion, Men, Pygmalion

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• We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

  Gerry Spence

  Neighbor, Communicate, Honestly

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• ...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Blood, Justice

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Heart, Mind

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Evil

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• To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

  Fred Brooks

  Passion, Giving, Doe

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• Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

  George W. Bush

  Messages, Depends, Candidates

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

  Isocrates

  Cities, Citizens, Should

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• When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

  Dale Jarrett

  Want, Firsts, Ran

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• I have to win races. It's not even an option.

  Joey Logano

  Winning

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• You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

  Gail Devers

  Giving Up, Champion, Chin Up

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Productive Work, Safety

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Europe

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• A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Humanity, Quality, United States

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• I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

  James Lee Burke

  White, Vets, Wonder

  James Lee Burke (2011). “Sunset Limited”, p.44, Island Books

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• Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Purpose, Strange

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.186, Bantam

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• Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mean, Community, Ladders

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Values matters well in a race.

  George W. Bush

  Matter, Wells, Values

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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